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ingrain

[in-greyn, in-greyn] / ɪnˈgreɪn, ˈɪnˌgreɪn /
VERB
imbue
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Also, Kansas City Fed President Schmid said additional rate cuts could do more to ingrain higher inflation than shore up the labor market, Nugent adds.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

Regular discussions about privacy, safety and online ethics help ingrain these lessons.

From Salon Oct. 21, 2024

“Our goal is to ingrain these concepts in children’s lives in creative ways,” he said.

From New York Times Apr. 27, 2023

Missing on this day was the slow swing rehearsal to ingrain the changes he made to his swing.

From Seattle Times Jan. 12, 2023

The effect of the system was to ingrain into our character a veneration for the Sabbath which no friction of after life would ever efface.

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe




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