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[in-heer] / ɪnˈhɪər /


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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

This virtue requires a metallic body in which to inhere.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer

No matter how ordinary or powerless the character, to each unfortunate soul yet inheres a magnificent, perhaps infinite, capacity for suffering.

From New York Times Mar. 29, 2019

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

That inevitable turn is the essence of the impulse to dramatic creation that inheres in a first-person narration.

From The New Yorker Apr. 25, 2015

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

It inheres in the idea of eternity and God.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore

By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.

From Salon Nov. 16, 2024

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

Amelie believed a certain distinction inhered in being always late for an appointment.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance

Buchanan did not believe that self-preservation inhered in the Constitution or the Union.

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

Further indication of this inhered in the wide yawn, of which he was in mid-enjoyment, when a hand on his shoulder cut short his ecstasy.

From Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

The question to be put to any doubtful fact in nature is this—'What is your use?' and the reality of the fact is in ratio to the degree of usefulness inhering in it.

From Here are Ladies by James Stephens

Cosmic ideation exists everywhere; but when placed under restrictions by a material Upadhi it results as the consciousness of the individual inhering in such Upadhi.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

Indeed, it is precisely an inhering diversity that distinguishes unity from homogeneity or uniformity.

From The Prosperity of Humankind by Baha'i International Community

Relation, then, considered formally as such, is not an absolute accident inhering in a subject, but is a reference of this subject to some other thing, this latter being called the term of the relation.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey




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