How to Use inbuilt in a Sentence

inbuilt

adjective
  • She has an inbuilt resistance to change.
  • It comes with several inbuilt features.
  • An inbuilt caste system from the mother's side determines who has dibs on the pool.
    Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2010
  • The F-150 Lightning has a very useful locking frunk with inbuilt power.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But because of Hudson Square’s inbuilt nature, that is going to be an uphill climb.
    Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2021
  • With an inbuilt sturdy iFin system, the board is resistant to damage and is the perfect vessel to explore quiet coves from your yacht.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • But maybe consumers would be more inclined to mask up if their PPE came with extra (non-life saving) features, like inbuilt Bluetooth speakers.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The gallery creates its own pedestrian cul de sac, with inbuilt benches carved from local pietra serena stone acting as a place for tired and hungry tourists to sit.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • If any of the sensors or cameras around the home are triggered, the base station will send a signal to SimpliSafe via the internet or even an inbuilt cellular connection.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
  • If the primary tactic of Democrats is to split the difference between themselves and hard-line conservatives, there is an inbuilt incentive for the right to move ever further to the right.
    Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2021
  • For years, there hasn’t been any clarity around what Twitter’s inbuilt tools for deleting your messages actually do.
    WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • That was lesson number one for me: never let an opportunity to deprogram inbuilt fears that stunt your personal growth pass you by.
    Essence, 30 July 2021
  • Part of this resolve to bring choruses back together extends quite naturally from a long, proud, inbuilt American tradition of obsessive show-must-go-on-ism.
    Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Human connection with inbuilt privacy protection is one of the more surprising applications featured, one that most media coverage of avatars and deep fakes, ignores.
    Tracey Follows, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • To combat this, Randonautica now has its own inbuilt social network, Discover.
    Amelia Tait, Wired, 13 Nov. 2021
  • No detectable inflammation was produced, meaning that cells' inbuilt immune defenses didn't even see the virus, signalling that EMC is very effective at evading immune system defenses.
    Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2013
  • But the delicate 50-50 balance in the Senate represents an inbuilt vulnerability in Biden's position, adding to uncertainty over whether Democrats can ram through a bigger, alternative plan if Republicans leave the table.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 31 May 2021

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