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is entrenching

  • present progressive of entrench (3rd person singular).

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Apple isn’t getting into the carmaking business—but it is entrenching itself further into the automotive business, and in a big way.

From Time Apr. 18, 2016

There has been much soul-searching in many countries about the cost of higher education and whether the university system is entrenching division rather than promoting social mobility.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2016

And it would seize momentum at a time when the Islamic State is entrenching itself.

From Washington Post Jun. 24, 2015

But, to return to operations in Virginia, I will tell you, my dear general, that Lord Cornwallis is entrenching at York and at Gloucester.

From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de