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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

Still, for all its pain, the movie is about the virtue and the quality that inhere in success.

From The New Yorker Nov. 5, 2018

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 know a seemingly endless stream of sensations which manifest themselves in certain ways, and seem to inhere in what we call things and beings.

From The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

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

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

Inside, where the mind makes comparisons and analogies, the dissociation inheres in malfunctioning metaphors: what is a “symposium / of endangered stars” and how would it evict itself?

From The New Yorker May 8, 2017

Much of the wit in “Telegraph Avenue” inheres in Chabon’s astonishing prose.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2012

Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.

From Salon Nov. 16, 2024

In this waif of our gutters and ward of our sidewalk artist inhered a spirit of the most punctilious and rigid honor, the gift, perhaps, of some forgotten ancestry.

From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams

How much more of this sacred character inhered in the heroes who created nationwide railroad systems, vast steelmaking consolidations, monopolies of oil and coal!

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

"Why—er—no," began the puzzled Julien, who failed for the moment to perceive what of tragic portent inhered in a prospective afternoon of golf.

From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams

She did not: she accepted her as a convention in which affection inhered through tradition alone....

From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance

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

But value is not a property inhering in any article itself.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones

So also karma or action is supposed to be a separate entity, and even the class notions are perceived as separate entities inhering in substances.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta

Relation, then, considered formally as such, is not an absolute accident inhering in a subject, but is a reference of this subject to some other thing, this latter being called the term of the relation.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

If the refuge is broken, O sire, everything inhering thereto is scattered on every side.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli




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