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Entrenching his central status was of “decisive significance” for China’s rise, said a gathering of senior officials preparing for the congress.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

This astonishing history appears briefly in the philosopher Matthew Stewart’s brilliant new book, “The 9.9%: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021

Entrenching him in his environment with his cousins and friends and Halloween, I felt like the lawyer was giving her really good, sound advice.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2019

Entrenching tool—A sort of small shovel for quick digging.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby

No more may Kellaway in bland retort Disguise the truth with verbal circumstance; Our special correspondents still report: "Entrenching tools obscure the face of France."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920 by Various