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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

Head coach Lindsay Gottlieb trusts Burns to attack practice head-on to teach, develop and ingrain defensive principles when players arrive at University Park.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 19, 2025

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

From Salon Oct. 21, 2024

He had to ingrain himself in the school and the Central District community, where the Rodriguez name still holds lots of weight.

From Seattle Times May 17, 2024

They were neatly furnished, with nice ingrain carpets, cane-bottom chairs, an extension dining table, and very pretty, straw-colored Venetian window-blinds, trimmed with dark blue cords and tassels.

From A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren by Charless, Charlotte Taylor Blow




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