entrenchment
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“Preventing this entrenchment is where monetary policy has a primary role to play—through its influence on inflation expectations rather than through blunt demand compression.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr noted inflation remains near 3%, risking entrenchment, and warned against ignoring energy price shocks.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
"We have been unable to establish confidence in the management or governance of Seven & i," ValueAct wrote in a letter to the company's board dated April 2, adding recent communication heightened concern about "entrenchment."
From Reuters • Apr. 2, 2023
More broadly, we found that the origin of the dish is linked to a particular period in history — the entrenchment of colonial rule in West Africa.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2023
Who could save an army from rout if attacked in rear, or judiciously decide upon a line of entrenchment?
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis