inhere in
phrasal verb
inhered in; inhering in; inheres in
formal
: to be a natural part of (someone or something)
He believes that liberty inheres in humanity as a natural right.
Does selfishness inhere in each of us?
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Americans can affirm their core values yet recognize the hubris that inheres in them.
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Melvyn P. Leffler, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011
Unlike, say, Furby, American Girl appears to have inhered in some essential way within the millennial conception of self.
—Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
But better reasons inhere in the rush of new ideas that have reinvigorated the science of paleontology and forced us to recast murky old primitives as efficient and worthy creatures in their own terms.
—Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Granting all perturbation and backsliding, generous lives had been lived on that fecund soil, and a generous spirit inhered in it.
—Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
The problem with this approach is that the difference between a good instrument and a great one could inhere in the player’s experience, rather than in the external sound.
—Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 July 2023
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Melvyn P. Leffler, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011
Unlike, say, Furby, American Girl appears to have inhered in some essential way within the millennial conception of self.
—Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
But better reasons inhere in the rush of new ideas that have reinvigorated the science of paleontology and forced us to recast murky old primitives as efficient and worthy creatures in their own terms.
—Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Granting all perturbation and backsliding, generous lives had been lived on that fecund soil, and a generous spirit inhered in it.
—Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
The problem with this approach is that the difference between a good instrument and a great one could inhere in the player’s experience, rather than in the external sound.
—Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 July 2023
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