Entrench
verb
To fix an idea, habit, or belief in someone's mind so deeply that it cannot be changed.
After living in the city for a decade, his love for urban life was so entrenched he couldn't imagine living anywhere else.
Often appears as...
- entrench in mind
- entrench in culture
verb
To establish a strong position that cannot be threatened.
The company has managed to entrench itself in the market and is now a leading brand.
Often appears as...
- entrench in the market
- entrench position
verb
To fix an idea, habit, or belief in someone's mind so deeply that it cannot be changed.
After living in the city for a decade, his love for urban life was so entrenched he couldn't imagine living anywhere else.
Often appears as...
- entrench in mind
- entrench in culture
verb
To establish a strong position that cannot be threatened.
The company has managed to entrench itself in the market and is now a leading brand.
Often appears as...
- entrench in the market
- entrench position
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Deep Influence
Use 'entrench' when something has a deep and lasting impact on a person's thoughts or beliefs.
Decades of tradition have so entrenched their customs that any changes meet strong resistance.
Pro Tip 2/3Resistant to Change
'Entrench' suggests that the idea or belief is very difficult, if not impossible, to change.
Her belief in fairness is deeply entrenched despite the unfairness she has faced.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Connection
‘Entrench’ often relates to beliefs or habits tied to strong emotions or personal identity.
His sense of justice was so entrenched that it became a core part of his personality.
Pro Tip 1/3Deep Influence
Use 'entrench' when something has a deep and lasting impact on a person's thoughts or beliefs.
Decades of tradition have so entrenched their customs that any changes meet strong resistance.
Pro Tip 2/3Resistant to Change
'Entrench' suggests that the idea or belief is very difficult, if not impossible, to change.
Her belief in fairness is deeply entrenched despite the unfairness she has faced.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Connection
‘Entrench’ often relates to beliefs or habits tied to strong emotions or personal identity.
His sense of justice was so entrenched that it became a core part of his personality.
Pro Tip 1/3Deep Influence
Use 'entrench' when something has a deep and lasting impact on a person's thoughts or beliefs.
Decades of tradition have so entrenched their customs that any changes meet strong resistance.
Pro Tip 2/3Resistant to Change
'Entrench' suggests that the idea or belief is very difficult, if not impossible, to change.
Her belief in fairness is deeply entrenched despite the unfairness she has faced.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Connection
‘Entrench’ often relates to beliefs or habits tied to strong emotions or personal identity.
His sense of justice was so entrenched that it became a core part of his personality.
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
The last point I want to observe about this mindset, the idea that only people who are doing something wrong have things to hide and therefore reasons to care about privacy, is that it entrenches two very destructive messages, two destructive lessons, the first of which is that the only people who care about privacy,
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Demand a more...
layer on the concept of bureaucracy in the administrative state to help us govern complex and large societies but we've centralized these bureaucracies we've entrenched them and we know that the smartest person always works for someone else when you'd only look around this room to know the expertise and
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An interview with the...
who are becoming transformed in the service of this movement. We all know that as you get older, you get a little more entrenched in your ways. It's happening to me, I know that's right. But I'm so inspired when I see people who have a way that they do things, have a way that they think about the world,
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Daniel H. Cohen: For...
The first model -- let's call it the dialectical model -- is we think of arguments as war; you know what that's like -- a lot of screaming and shouting and winning and losing. That's not a very helpful model for arguing, but it's a pretty common and entrenched model for arguing.
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Uber's plan to get more...
OK, that's cool. Now, so you, yourself, are something of an enigma, I would say. Your supporters and investors, who have been with you the whole way, believe that the only chance of sort of taking on the powerful, entrenched interests of taxi industry and so forth,
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The impact of Simón...
deplored actually became more entrenched after the revolution white simply grabbed all the power that the Spaniards had left behind and the whole miserable hierarchy of race ground onward only now are we beginning to experience something
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David Deutsch: A new way...
Before the scientific revolution, they believed that everything important, knowable, was already known, enshrined in ancient writings, institutions and in some genuinely useful rules of thumb -- which were, however, entrenched as dogmas,
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Paul Tudor Jones II: Why...
and like an addict trying to kick a habit, the first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem. And let me just say, this profits mania that we're on is so deeply entrenched that we don't even realize how we're harming society.
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America Ferrera: My...
That I was a person of less value. I thought sunscreen and straightening irons would bring about change in this deeply entrenched value system. But what I realized in that moment
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Caffeine 101 PIPE National...
- For morning coffee to afternoon tea, caffeine is so thoroughly entrenched in our daily routines and has become the worlds most widely used psychoactive substance.
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
The last point I want to observe about this mindset, the idea that only people who are doing something wrong have things to hide and therefore reasons to care about privacy, is that it entrenches two very destructive messages, two destructive lessons, the first of which is that the only people who care about privacy,
Video examples
Demand a more...
layer on the concept of bureaucracy in the administrative state to help us govern complex and large societies but we've centralized these bureaucracies we've entrenched them and we know that the smartest person always works for someone else when you'd only look around this room to know the expertise and
Video examples
An interview with the...
who are becoming transformed in the service of this movement. We all know that as you get older, you get a little more entrenched in your ways. It's happening to me, I know that's right. But I'm so inspired when I see people who have a way that they do things, have a way that they think about the world,
Video examples
Daniel H. Cohen: For...
The first model -- let's call it the dialectical model -- is we think of arguments as war; you know what that's like -- a lot of screaming and shouting and winning and losing. That's not a very helpful model for arguing, but it's a pretty common and entrenched model for arguing.
Video examples
Uber's plan to get more...
OK, that's cool. Now, so you, yourself, are something of an enigma, I would say. Your supporters and investors, who have been with you the whole way, believe that the only chance of sort of taking on the powerful, entrenched interests of taxi industry and so forth,
Video examples
The impact of Simón...
deplored actually became more entrenched after the revolution white simply grabbed all the power that the Spaniards had left behind and the whole miserable hierarchy of race ground onward only now are we beginning to experience something
Video examples
David Deutsch: A new way...
Before the scientific revolution, they believed that everything important, knowable, was already known, enshrined in ancient writings, institutions and in some genuinely useful rules of thumb -- which were, however, entrenched as dogmas,
Video examples
Paul Tudor Jones II: Why...
and like an addict trying to kick a habit, the first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem. And let me just say, this profits mania that we're on is so deeply entrenched that we don't even realize how we're harming society.
Video examples
America Ferrera: My...
That I was a person of less value. I thought sunscreen and straightening irons would bring about change in this deeply entrenched value system. But what I realized in that moment
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Caffeine 101 PIPE National...
- For morning coffee to afternoon tea, caffeine is so thoroughly entrenched in our daily routines and has become the worlds most widely used psychoactive substance.
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Roberto Unger
Brazilian Politician
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
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Carl Hart
American Educator
Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.
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Mindy Kaling
American Actress
When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.
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Louis B. Rosenberg
American Inventor
Taking a vote or poll is a great simple way to take a decision, but it doesn't help a group find consensus. It actually polarizes people and highlights the differences between them. People end up getting entrenched in their views.
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Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Indonesian Economist
Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries.
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Reshma Saujani
American Lawyer
You still hear this perception that boys are good at math and girls are not, and it's not cool and it's not interesting. And I think we have to shift the culture. It's so deeply entrenched in who we are.
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Philip Gibbs
British Journalist
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
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Peter Hain
British Politician
What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
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Aaron Dessner
American Musician
White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so entrenched.
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Will Hurd
American Politician
America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.
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Roberto Unger
Brazilian Politician
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
Quote examples
Carl Hart
American Educator
Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.
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Mindy Kaling
American Actress
When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.
Quote examples
Louis B. Rosenberg
American Inventor
Taking a vote or poll is a great simple way to take a decision, but it doesn't help a group find consensus. It actually polarizes people and highlights the differences between them. People end up getting entrenched in their views.
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Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Indonesian Economist
Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries.
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Reshma Saujani
American Lawyer
You still hear this perception that boys are good at math and girls are not, and it's not cool and it's not interesting. And I think we have to shift the culture. It's so deeply entrenched in who we are.
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Philip Gibbs
British Journalist
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
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Peter Hain
British Politician
What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
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Aaron Dessner
American Musician
White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so entrenched.
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Will Hurd
American Politician
America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.
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