ingrained

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“They do so much more shopping on their phone than ever before, so Apple Pay is ingrained in their iPhone,” Broadbent said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Inside the ornate former presidential palace, photographs and oral testimony detail the grinding poverty and ingrained corruption of the dictatorship of Cuba's then-military strongman, Fulgencio Batista.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Except for his hands and a circle of his face, his body was gray all over with ancient, ingrained dirt.

From "1984" by George Orwell

What about that ingrained resentment toward yuppies, so strong he’d refused to even consider moving to some of the most interesting cities in America?

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

It had been ingrained in me by my mother to never poke my nose into anybody’s business.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam