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[in-heer] / ɪnˈhɪər /


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Despite the difficulties that inhere in Holocaust memoir — we believe we know this history, and its subject matter defies language — “Mala’s Cat” is fresh, unsentimental and utterly unpredictable.

From New York Times Jan. 12, 2022

These contradictions inhere in every medium, of course.

From The New Yorker Dec. 17, 2019

The genius doesn't inhere in Lee's screenplay but in the total package.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 22, 2018

“Tragedy and good and evil often inhere in the same situation,” he said in response to the outcry in January.

From Time Sep. 23, 2015

We perceive, then, C. That for all mental operations which have as object pure laws and ideal forms, and that Being in whom all these inhere, this dictum is not true.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

In Shakespeare’s play, the occult is an expression of what already inheres in the protagonist’s psychology.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 14, 2022

But the reason that it’s virtual — a global pandemic — only heightens the dread that inheres in the seasonal dynamic.

From Washington Post Sep. 21, 2020

And yet tonight was a dramatic show of the actual power that inheres in the president himself; it’s a power that’s partly real and immutable, and partly, in this president’s hands, a bit.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2020

In describing how the British philologist William Jones “discovered” Sanskrit and noticed its affinity with Greek, Taseer nudges the reader toward his main thesis: history inheres in modernity.

From The New Yorker Mar. 30, 2019

This presents a further aspect of the process of moving labor and capital from group to group, in which the possibility of hardship for particular persons inheres.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark

By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.

From Salon Nov. 16, 2024

Conceding freely the incredible reality of this phase of her history, she none the less contended that in it no more true permanence inhered than in a dream.

From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs

But granting the premise of the Supreme Court decision, "that the constitution does not confer suffrage on any one," then it inhered with the citizen before the constitution was framed.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To his mind a most delectable flavour of discreet scandal inhered in such collections of shabby properties from anonymous homes.

From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance

Strange, that in a nation in which was born and in which has inhered all the indomitableness of individualism should be so long unable to understand the secret of personal liberty!

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The very question is an assertion that mindfulness is an attribute of God, as well as of man, a statement of the sense of deep meaning inhering in mindfulness.

From The Guardian Jun. 4, 2010

Action, belonging to or inhering in substances, is that which produces change, Genus belongs to substance, qualities and actions; there are higher and lower genera.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Justification in the Catholic sense, therefore, is not a mere outward imputation of the justice of Christ, but a true inward renewal and sanctification wrought by a grace intrinsically inhering in the soul.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

This gives a clear view of the will power inhering in the mental man, and its wonderful influence on the body.

From Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. by Ledyard Bill

There is a subtle and positive balm to weak nerves and sore lungs inhering in the atmosphere of pine forests, wholly unknown to that of any other.

From Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. by Ledyard Bill




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