entrenched
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Business owners face a thorny question: Are high energy costs a temporary nuisance, or an entrenched reality that calls for price hikes right now?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Now that they are there, they're going to be entrenched," Hisham al-Omeisi, senior analyst at the Brussels-based European Institute of Peace, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Bulls and bears remain entrenched in their robo-taxi opinions.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Walker and Auen understand that humanity is deeply entrenched in an empathy crisis, with every last way out being sealed off one by one.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
For the most part, entrenched custom dies hard and blanket spraying continues to thrive, to exact its heavy annual costs from the taxpayer, and to inflict its damage on the ecological web of life.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing entrenched
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State of the Union Address 2016
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