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1
as in suffusing
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
the journalism professor has long ingrained his students with a deep respect for their chosen profession
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2
as in etching
to produce a vivid impression of
the third-world privation he had witnessed forever ingrained itself upon the young doctor's memory
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3
as in rooting
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter
tried to ingrain traditional values in their children
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingraining
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Your energetic 5th house hosts the meeting of Mercury and Pluto, suffusing your hobbies with cosmic delight.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2026 -
Rafiq suspected that the anxiety suffusing the market had made any pickpockets unlikely to be scoping out potential shoppers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment’s etching tools are used in 5-nanometre chip production, while Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment supplies packaging lithography systems for data centre chips.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Jan. 2026
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According to Stein, the acid can eat away at the stone’s finish and cause dull spots or etching.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
17 Jan. 2026
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Asking for a good old-fashioned rooting interest.—
Greg Cote
January 23,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2026
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The team everyone will be watching and the vast majority rooting against.—
Seth Emerson,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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But in all realities, the E3 uses two auto-focus points – like a stereo range finder – for engraving over uneven or concave/convex surfaces.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Nov. 2025
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Just start engraving the Tony statues right now.—
EW Staff,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Oct. 2025
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The report goes further, explaining that most failures stem not from the models themselves, but from poor integration into real workflows, overreliance on generic tools, and a tendency for companies to treat AI as a standalone experiment rather than embedding it into core operations.—
Michael Wystrach,
Fortune,
29 Jan. 2026
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Phia already sits between more than 1 million users and 6,200 retail brands, embedding AI directly into consumers’ natural shopping flow, according to the company.—
Nicole Casperson,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The flavorful new option is made by infusing the clean taste of Absolut vodka with the heat and aroma that comes from the peppers used to make the South’s most famous hot sauce.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
28 Jan. 2026
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This is how the living assist the imaginations of the dead, infusing reality with fiction and altering the meaning of a city.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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But teams are free to secure their own training sites and lodging facilities and some already have.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2026
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Interviews with lodging operators, industry groups and travel consultants describe a system where constant price-cutting and opaque policies are eroding profitability, even as demand rebounds.—
Bloomberg,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2026
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Louvered windows are opened to allow outside air in, cooling the wort and inoculating it with microbes that will magically start fermentation.—
Don Tse,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Similarly, white Americans are nearly four times as likely to skip or delay vaccinating their children compared to Asian Americans, with 19 percent and 5 percent, respectively, forgoing or putting off inoculating their kids, according to the poll.—
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech,
The Hill,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Ingraining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingraining. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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