become embedded
Frequency: 7.015.2 per million words
Describes the process of coming to be firmly fixed within something.
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- The microchip has become embedded in almost every electronic device.
- Over generations, these traditions had become so deeply embedded in the community that no one questioned them.
- Without intervention, this negative thought pattern will become embedded in his subconscious.
- Corruption often becomes embedded in systems with little transparency.
- The journalist will become embedded with the military unit to report from the front lines.
- The piece of shrapnel became embedded in the soldier's leg.
- The value of hard work has become firmly embedded within the company's culture.
- Learning a new language is difficult until the grammar rules become embedded in your memory.
- In some societies, the practice of tattooing has become culturally embedded.
- A sense of distrust became embedded in their relationship after the betrayal.