entrenchment
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- noun
- /ɪnˈtrɛnʧmənt/
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- The entrenchment of outdated beliefs can hinder progress in society.
- entrenchment of fundamental
Examples
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Labelling and legislative entrenchment of such markers further ingrains colonialism within Canada's national fabric: legislatively, politically, and socially.
Academic text (2001) -
However, taken in the context of his speeches and policies, the message is not one of moderation but entrenchment.
Academic text (2011) -
There is a firm entrenchment in the entitlement community that government can solve their problems.
Blog text (5) -
But Bush should explain to him that capitalism will not thrive in Russia without the entrenchment of democracy.
Academic text (2001) -
Both events clearly reflect the entrenchment of the party system for political contests, even for the military establishment.
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Public commitment not only serves to engender support, but further fosters the entrenchment of the belief system within the individual.
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Said alluded strongly to the entrenchment of the idea of interventionism in the minds of the American foreign policy elite.
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With the aim of finding alternatives to collective and political entrenchment, we were seeking reconciliatory ways to imagine a future beyond the current stalemate.
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Religious and ideological entrenchment, not reconciliatory dialogue, marked new ethnoreligious boundaries that became increasingly radicalized.
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The welfare system, enacted during the Depression, coincided with the entrenchment of formal racial segregation and systematically excluded Black people.
Blog text (16)
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Etymology
Entrenchment is also used for ideas or habits that are like things 'dug in'—picture beliefs fixed like soldiers in a trench, hard to move. That's why entrenchment means something firmly fixed and difficult to change.