Example Sentences

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Only the practical rationality and moral rootedness of the New World can redeem the old.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

"There's a real depth of connection between people, and deep rootedness, things that I think are important for climate resilience," she said.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

Hale and others have noted that loyalty and rootedness.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2024

Ever since scientists discovered that trees have a certain sentience and capacity for communication, writers have thrilled to use them as metaphors for rootedness, loss, blight, interconnectedness — you name it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023

And ever since we began to incur the condescension of foreigners by trying to be American, we have been conscious of this weak- rootedness in our literature and trying to remedy it.

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel