entrenched
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Out went an entrenched bureaucracy, store managers were given greater responsibility for how their stores looked, and older stores were marked for remodeling.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
With his ambitions for TV limited by entrenched local network affiliates, Turner expanded his independent station’s reach across the South and then the U.S. by embracing the new technologies of cable and satellite broadcasting.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
These were no longer temporary formations but had become entrenched institutions within their communities, the report said.
From BBC • May 3, 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
Shorthand terms are unobjectionable, indeed indispensable, when a term has become entrenched in the community one is writing for.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing entrenched
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State of the Union Address 2016
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