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Although in her youth Catherine had imbibed Enlightenment views about the suffering of the common people, she was pragmatic enough to leave undisturbed the adamantine ways of the Russian countryside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

While in Crescent, Manning had imbibed her father’s conservative politics — “I questioned nothing,” she told me.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2017

Standing among all the glorious bottles my father would never drink, I felt some of the beauty and grace that I had imbibed as a child begin to leak out of me.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017

Since Vietnam all media organizations had imbibed the conventional wisdom about the public’s apparent averseness to casualties.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2014

I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts: what seemed better regulated feelings had become the inmates of my mind.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë