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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

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

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2023

She felt her feet sink luxuriously into the rugs, oh, so different from the threadbare ingrain carpet at home!

From Jewel Weed by Fisher, Harrison