rooted

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Tumbler Ridge's history is rooted in mining, with the industry still employing many of the town's residents.

From BBC

While much of Tuliaupupu’s eligibility is rooted in a series of severe injuries, many other college athletes are doing their best to stay in school through various other methods.

From MarketWatch

Her work is rooted in the diaspora experience and living here has brought her closer to those roots.

From Los Angeles Times

The poems are rooted in their observations of current affairs and native plants; the publication was completed in December, when Valenzuela and Cheng planned for a reading and celebration of their work at Bravo High.

From Los Angeles Times

There is nothing new about the bad conscience or self-destructive urge that Baudrillard identified within Western civilization, or about its deeply rooted conflict between incompatible tendencies we might call liberation and domination.

From Salon