ingrained

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  1. adjective Firmly established; deep-seated: ingrained prejudice; the ingrained habits of a lifetime.
  2. adjective Worked deeply into the texture or fiber: a carpet disfigured by ingrained dirt.

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  • No one here has a gender or even a permanent set of sex organs (though Egan uses gendered pronouns, perhaps to let the narrative flow smoothly--we don't have a good neutral alternative, so deeply ingrained is the gender assumption). —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 02 - August 2002
  • But social reflexes on that martial world were deeply ingrained, and she was saluted and deferred to even without the rest of the amazon uniform. —  F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
  • So ingrained was his behavior that he had reflexively started to move toward them. —  Spider-Man2
  • It was on the contrary something that was deeply ingrained, and the Reichsführer SS knew very well what he could demand of his men. —  Commandant of Auschwitz
  • But it was all too ingrained, the moment was past. —  ChallengingDestiny#23
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