enshrined; enshrining; enshrines
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some teachers tend to enshrine their personal preferences as sacred rules of English grammar
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But Vance’s false accusations at last year’s conference – that Europe is suppressing freedom of speech and democracy, and facing civilizational decline – are now enshrined in US national security strategy.
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
Even if all these sunny promises are enshrined in contracts, built into budgets, and consecrated with good intentions, there are still plenty of ways the whole project could go kerflooey.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Feb. 2026
But the responsibility for Puerto Rican music at the big game rests with Woodrow Wilson and the 1917 Congress that explicitly enshrined Puerto Rico as American.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
Though the mass of Jewish migration, escaping Russian pogroms and Nazi Germany in succeeding waves, occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some arrived before the revolution; but the Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom, granted them legal rights.
—Robert Lloyd, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
Even if all these sunny promises are enshrined in contracts, built into budgets, and consecrated with good intentions, there are still plenty of ways the whole project could go kerflooey.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Feb. 2026
But the responsibility for Puerto Rican music at the big game rests with Woodrow Wilson and the 1917 Congress that explicitly enshrined Puerto Rico as American.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
Though the mass of Jewish migration, escaping Russian pogroms and Nazi Germany in succeeding waves, occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some arrived before the revolution; but the Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom, granted them legal rights.
—Robert Lloyd, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
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enshrine
verb
en·shrine
in-ˈshrīn 
enshrined; enshrining
1
: to enclose in or as if in a shrine
2
: to preserve or cherish as sacred
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