entrenched
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Businesses want the mayoral candidates to deal with downtown’s entrenched troubles.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
Over the long term, this can mean a changed society as more conformist and compliant speech and culture become more widely accepted and entrenched.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
It is the sovereign people alone who can craft entrenched rules.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
Whereas the European gothic, he concludes, was “an enlightened attack on a debased ruling class or entrenched superstition,” its American version emerged as “a Calvinist exposé of natural human corruption.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
By that point, nearly every effort to send a US agent behind the Iron Curtain had failed; the KGB was simply too well entrenched and too vigilant for the Americans to sneak past its nets.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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