ingrained habit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofingrainedandhabit
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ingrained
adjective
uk/ɪnˈɡreɪnd/us/ɪnˈɡreɪnd/
(of beliefs) so firmly held that they are not likely ...
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habit
noun
uk/ˈhæb.ɪt/us/ˈhæb.ɪt/
something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are ...
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(Definition ofingrainedandhabitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Elected representatives have aningrainedhabitof demanding the fullest powers.
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It is now aningrainedhabit, a virility symbol, a chicken challenge and a scourge.
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It is aningrainedhabitto the point of having almost become part of our culture.
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First, we have theingrainedhabitof delaying and postponing educational matters.
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So he was not good at conveying the poignancy of change, the pain of political dilemmas, the difficulty of innovators in bringing people to abandoningrainedhabit.
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One might say that his habit of deference to the advice of his experts is almost aningrainedhabit.
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They follow out aningrainedhabitof the country, which is rather a peace habit than a war habit, of referring everything to a committee.
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Until we change that frame of mind—it will be extremely difficult to change theingrainedhabitof a century—industry will continue to decline, despite ministerial speeches.
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It seems to me to have been for quite a long time aningrainedhabitof the department she now represents to indulge in these thoroughly bad practices.
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They have aningrainedhabitof buying on the credit system and of giving out money to farmers and army pensioners even more extensively than we do in this country.
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Women have becomeor when theingrainedhabitof unconscious imitation has been superseded, they will becomeindispensable to the religious evolution of the human race.
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Part of the function of these various methods was to undermine and undo theingrainedhabitpatterns of the mind and bring about moments of insight.
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