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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

Much of the novel's interest, quite permissibly, may inhere in persons, episodes, and matter generally without relation to the main thread of the story.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst

Much of the drama of baseball inheres in its slowness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Methodologically speaking, though, the gap between these two more basic strategies may speak to a fundamental paradox that inheres in archival projects more generally.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017

She yields to text the way a master violinist yields to a score, drawing out color that inheres in a composition but typically passes unnoticed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012

If he hadn't up to this time affected greatly my gratitude or affections, he began to shine for me now with some of the precious quality which inheres in dreams.

From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin

By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024

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

Qualities had independent existence as much as substances, but when any new substances were produced, the qualities rushed forward and inhered in them.

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

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 like imaginative strain, so scorned of our petty day, inhered in all the lofty souls of that age.

From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) Taylor

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

So too is substance absolute being, compared with accidents as inhering and existing in substance.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

The right inhering in the party of the first part imposes a duty on the party of the second part.

From Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology by John Wesley Powell

Space and time are neither substantial receptacles which contain all that is real nor orders inhering in things in themselves, but forms of intuition.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

Now, a thing which has its existence by inhering in some other thing is in philosophic parlance an “accident.”

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