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The very question is an assertion that mindfulness is an attribute of God, as well as of man, a statement of the sense of deep meaning inhering in mindfulness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2010

Our memorial calls your attention to the Pembina debate in 1874, when senators from eighteen States recognized the right of self-government as inhering in women.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

This is pure English, simple, masculine; turned into poetry by a true life of expression, and by the inhering melody of the numbers.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

The question to be put to any doubtful fact in nature is this—'What is your use?' and the reality of the fact is in ratio to the degree of usefulness inhering in it.

From Here are Ladies by Stephens, James

But value is not a property inhering in any article itself.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)