take root
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"If after a few days the tree showed signs of life and began to take root, they believed that place was meant for them," Arkoful says.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
It would take years, economists and business leaders say, to reorient global patterns of trade that took decades to take root.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026
Support from the U.S. government and multilateral financial institutions such as the Inter-American Development Bank helped the industry take root.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025
The work there has included arranging bales of straw on the sand, which has enabled native shrubs to take root and begin to keep down the blowing dust.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
Science has been very slow to take root.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
