ingrained

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Ingrained in police training is that every traffic stop has the potential to wind up becoming an ambush, and so police have been trained to be hyper-vigilant.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2021

Ingrained in Oberlander’s work, large and small, was the idea that everyone should have access to gardens and green spaces that nurture emotional well-being.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2021

Ingrained with a wanderlust that I try to foist on my children, I probably see more of California than most.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2018

Ingrained poverty and the poor state of education have failed to help those at the bottom end of the ladder.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2018

Ingrained in the consciousness of these was the idea of an abstract elemental giant, tremendous and immutable as the northern winter, of which the blind forces of the army were only a personified detail.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham