embed
verb (used with object)
to fix into a surrounding mass.
had embedded
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past perfectof embed.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Goldman Sachs analysts noted that spot LNG prices had embedded little-to-no risk premium until Friday.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Reuters denied that it had prior knowledge of the attack or had "embedded journalists with Hamas" on 7 October.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2023
Some studies have observed uranium above natural concentrations in samples collected from soldiers serving in the Gulf War, Bosnia and Afghanistan who had embedded DU fragments in their bodies.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2023
The founders had embedded protections for slavery in the Constitution, but it was only after the abolition war, during what the historian Eric Foner calls the Second Founding, that nonracial citizenship became possible.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2021
There were glints of silver in the splashed white of the chest, some metal her mother had embedded in the paint.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
