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as in plants
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
everyone remembers that special teacher who enrooted within them a love of learning
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2
as in roots
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter
a deeply enrooted tradition of respect for the elderly
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For a help defender to draw a charge, he must be set when the offensive player plants his foot to go airborne.—
CJ Moore,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026 -
Ma crawls toward you and plants her palms on your cheeks.—
Molly Aitken,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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Louisiana dirty rice is a tasty meat-and-rice dish that roots its flavor in aromatic Cajun seasoning and the holy trinity vegetables.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2026
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For Pritchard, whose Stanford roots date back to 2005, the chance to return as head coach was both emotional and deeply personal.—
Harold Gutmann,
Mercury News,
3 Dec. 2025
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Which breeds matched with our family?—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
10 Feb. 2026
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Increasingly, companies are looking at how to make curiosity, which breeds innovation, part of their culture.—
Barnaby Lashbrooke,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The company embeds in e-commerce payments and point-of-sale systems to show consumers the environmental impact of their purchase and offers them the option to support a local project to compensate for that impact.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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Its architecture embeds intelligent agents directly into each aircraft, enabling autonomous formation control, routing, and obstacle avoidance.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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In addition, through diplomatic channels in both Beijing and Tokyo, Japan lodges strong representations and protests, stating that maritime and scientific surveys conducted in our EEZ without Japan's consent are unacceptable and must be immediately stopped.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Their moves come against the backdrop of a competitive primary fight for the Senate in 2026, as Paxton lodges a conservative challenge against the incumbent.—
Julia Mueller,
The Hill,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Enroots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enroots. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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