entrenchment
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“Preventing this entrenchment is where monetary policy has a primary role to play—through its influence on inflation expectations rather than through blunt demand compression.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr noted inflation remains near 3%, risking entrenchment, and warned against ignoring energy price shocks.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
"We have been unable to establish confidence in the management or governance of Seven & i," ValueAct wrote in a letter to the company's board dated April 2, adding recent communication heightened concern about "entrenchment."
From Reuters • Apr. 2, 2023
The success of the rice promotion strategy resulted in the entrenchment of an economy that became increasingly dependent on crops preferred by the colonizers.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2023
The warriors, clad in coats of mail, penetrated repeatedly into the entrenchment, but were each time killed or driven back.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de