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rooted

[roo-tid, root-id] / ˈru tɪd, ˈrʊt ɪd /
ADJECTIVE
implanted
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How much of your suspicions are rooted in fears rather than reality?

From MarketWatch

Trade and journalistic art criticism are both rooted in mass media, now threatened as their platforms shrink and disappear.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy in which the “public” in public health is erased, ignoring the deeply rooted fact that an individual’s health cannot and never will be isolated from everyone else.

From Salon

A relentlessly logical investigator must solve a mystery rooted in love and loyalty.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Mr. Sullivan freshens the familiar with shrewd diversions and, above all, the phenomenon of a relentlessly logical investigator confronting a mystery rooted in love and loyalty.

From The Wall Street Journal