entrenched
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Being there for his weekly routine captures something of Michaels’ entrenched schedule, as well as the scary-fast prep swirling around him.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Governing such a state requires balancing competing interests, navigating entrenched divisions and, yes, making decisions that will inevitably anger one side or the other.
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026
After nearly 100 years in business, IBM’s software and hardware are entrenched “across the most critical points of the world’s largest, most complex IT infrastructures.”
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Both were fettered by entrenched social expectations, leaving little room for anyone who wanted to chart a different course.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
They were, as is known to us, stopped in their progress at Great-Bridge, and here they now rest, entrenched, frowning at our stockade across a great marsh.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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