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inhere

[in-heer] / ɪnˈhɪər /


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Still, for all its pain, the movie is about the virtue and the quality that inhere in success.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018

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

The question of extremism does not inhere in any particular religion or any one part of the world.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2015

What do we mean by saying that accidents inhere in substances as their subjects?

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

The right to hang banners is a small thing, but the value of free speech inheres in acts of individual expression just as much as in grand statements of collective purpose.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2021

And yet tonight was a dramatic show of the actual power that inheres in the president himself; it’s a power that’s partly real and immutable, and partly, in this president’s hands, a bit.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2020

In describing how the British philologist William Jones “discovered” Sanskrit and noticed its affinity with Greek, Taseer nudges the reader toward his main thesis: history inheres in modernity.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019

The richness of Shakespeare’s unique comic vision inheres in such intelligent lyricism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2016

I defy you to lay your hand on his innocent head and question his legitimacy, which inheres only in a ceremony no civil law sanctioned.

From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson

By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024

Qualities had independent existence as much as substances, but when any new substances were produced, the qualities rushed forward and inhered in them.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta

How much more of this sacred character inhered in the heroes who created nationwide railroad systems, vast steelmaking consolidations, monopolies of oil and coal!

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

Strange, that in a nation in which was born and in which has inhered all the indomitableness of individualism should be so long unable to understand the secret of personal liberty!

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whatever problems might have inhered in that question when women were personally subject to their families or their husbands are well-nigh outgrown in all civilized countries, and entirely so in the most advanced.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper

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

He rather conceived of the vowels as inhering in the consonants—as modifications in the utterance of the consonants, which the reader could make for himself.

From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

"The Church of the Middle Ages did not hesitate to provide itself with eunuchs in order to supply cathedral choirs with the soprano tones inhering by nature in women alone."

From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen

One is tempted to say that THE NATIONS, as if conscious of the kindly disposition inhering in the spiritual existences toward ourselves, have simultaneously agreed in conferring upon them titles of endearment and affection.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various


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