entrench

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of entrench Economists worry inflation has become entrenched above the Federal Reserve’s target, even as President Donald Trump’s policies around tariffs and immigration threaten to exacerbate it. Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 12 Feb. 2025 The Padres have Fernando Tatis Jr. entrenched at that position, and Jackson Merrill in center field. Dennis Lin, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025 The party says it is focused on entrenching its mobilization of women to get more of them into leadership positions at lower levels of politics. Pamodi Waravita, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2025 The Department of Government Efficiency, led by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, has also entrenched its officials into the U.S. Treasury, the General Services Administration, the Office of Personnel Management and the Small Business Administration. David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for entrench
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrench
Verb
  • What’s more, she’s now embedded in a family of vampires who keep emphasizing how good her blood smells.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Contextualizing a woman’s death by embedding it into a show about how happy but also stressed the Baldwins are as a result of her death is … grim.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Popovich will try to return to the sidelines next season and everyone will be heavily rooting to his return.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • That conviction was rooted largely in the testimony of Justin Sneed, an adolescent maintenance man, who beat Van Treese to death with a baseball bat.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The initiative also pays homage to Hunt Hill Farm’s heritage, especially its role as the home of the local Plow-to-Plate program established in the 1980s by Ruth Henderson, founder of the New York Pops orchestra with her husband Skitch, decades ago.
    Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Italian immigrants most likely brought it to the United States in the 19th century and established it in California in the late 1800s.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Bosh had to be hospitalized because several of the clots broke free and ended up lodged in his lungs.
    Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The previous attack on Black and her puppy also set the groundwork for more serious charges being lodged against the Withers in the Echelbarger case.
    Laura A. Bischoff, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • DeMelo, meanwhile, is putting together an underrated season.
    Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
  • However, after becoming the first man to stop Zhang, the boxing world has no choice but to put some respect on the 32-year-old German’s name.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Second time around Where President Joe Biden responded to national exhaustion with Trump after the Republican’s first term by trying to stay off Americans’ screens and out of their lives as much as possible, Trump has ingrained himself in the national culture.
    Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • After working within the heart of the specialty coffee industry for the majority of my professional career (13+ years), quality and efficacy are ingrained within our ethos at Balance Coffee.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • House said the biggest concern for the company is all of these actions that appear relatively minimal, including on suppliers, combining to negatively impact the automaker’s business.
    Michael Wayland, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
  • In addition to farmers, other Americans and American goods (e.g., medical products, water supplies, farming equipment) are directly impacted.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • For now, these dissenters represent the best hope that a grassroots movement might instill some energy into the moribund and, frankly, embarrassing Democratic Party.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
  • This requires both technical expertise and the ability to instill confidence and clarity in clients who may feel overwhelmed by the road ahead.
    Mike Vietri, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Entrench.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrench. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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