entrench
verb (used with object)
to place in a position of strength; establish firmly or solidly.
has entrenched
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present perfectof entrench (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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And it has entrenched economic problems, including housing that manages both to be inadequate in supply and quality yet among the most expensive in the world.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
The degree to which distrust has entrenched itself worries Merlino, whose own efforts to educate have done little to sway her neighbors.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
Despite our best intentions, reforms that aim to curb platform power may instead aggregate power in platforms’ hands, just as some argue that privacy legislation in Europe has entrenched Big Tech.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2021
"This crisis has entrenched the inequalities that existed in our community anyway," says Anthony Hunt, the council's Labour leader.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2020
General Primrose heliographs that Ayub Khan has entrenched his camp at Baba Wali.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts
