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ingrain

verb as in imbue

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It’s gotten to the point that deep dish, like the “The Bean” and Chicago’s unforgiving wind, have been ingrained in people’s minds as a Chicago staple, even though it’s not.

From Ozy

That change ingrains the memory and lets us keep memories we recall more often, while others fade.

For direct-to-consumer brands, skepticism of Amazon is ingrained into them from launch.

From Digiday

Bars and restaurants are ingrained in our national culture and history.

From Fortune

Also, the idea of skincare as self-care has now been ingrained into our minds.

From Fortune

Whereupon Mufty, finding himself dropped upon the coldly unsympathetic ingrain carpet, desisted from further encouraging remarks.

But I never can—I'm like him, every one says so, and he says the heedlessness is ingrain, and can't be got rid of.

Between the pews, in the aisle, the violent vermilion of a strip of ingrain carpet assaulted the eye.

On the floor was a much used and faded ingrain carpet, in one place worn through by the edge of a loose board.

She felt her feet sink luxuriously into the rugs, oh, so different from the threadbare ingrain carpet at home!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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