take root
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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
Efforts to encourage investing in Japan, where many have long kept a big chunk of their wealth in deposit accounts, have been slow to take root.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 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
In a feebler, curious state, falsehoods can take root while truth slips through our hands, and vice versa.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2025
Cultures of honor tend to take root in highlands and other marginally fertile areas, such as Sicily or the mountainous Basque regions of Spain.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
