entrenched

Phonetic

US /ɪnˈtrentʃt/UK /ɪnˈtrentʃt/

Translations

VERBsimple past and past participle of entrench

Variants

  • entrench: dict.variant.lemma
  • entrenches: Third Person Singular
  • entrenching: Present Participle
  • entrenched: Past Participle, Past Tense

Examples

  • It’s often asked is there a red line for Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters.It would seem even becoming the first president ever to be indicted in this way, has made them more entrenched not less.

    Source:www.bbc.com

  • Control of the world’s largest producer of zinc/zɪŋk/ is at stake in a battle challenging the country’s entrenched chaebol/ˈtʃeɪbl/ system of powerful conglomerates.

    Source:www.nytimes.com

  • Working and living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.

    Source:www.nytimes.com

  • If there were a single indicator of the high hopes, and supreme disappointment, of China’s soccer dream it might be its perpetually underachieving men’s national team, which currently sits below the likes of Oman, Uzbekistan and Gabon in FIFA’s global rankings, firmly entrenched among the mediocre and the afterthoughts

    Source:cn.nytimes.com

  • Some airstrikes have begun to target Basij and intelligence headquarters, but experts are divided as to whether airstrikes can inflict enough damage to weaken a deeply entrenched and complex network of security forces across such a large country.

    Source:cn.nytimes.com

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