entrenched
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He added officials do have a delicate balancing act, to refrain from raising rates prematurely and further slow down a struggling economy, while avoiding waiting too long to act before higher inflation becomes entrenched.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Services firms with a focus on proprietary data and regulatory compliance that are entrenched in their customers’ workflows “remain difficult to replace,” according to the Goldman analysts.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Even Microsoft, with its large and entrenched user base, hasn’t been immune from the gloomy sentiment.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
It said these "combined challenges make clear that longer-term, system-wide change is essential" to prevent long treatment waits from becoming "entrenched".
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
By that point, nearly every effort to send a US agent behind the Iron Curtain had failed; the KGB was simply too well entrenched and too vigilant for the Americans to sneak past its nets.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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