engrain
Britishverb
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It’s a hands-on approach to platform-building with an explicitly prosocial bent — Abovitz imagines releasing a “young person’s primer to being a good Magic Leaper” to engrain mixed reality etiquette in kids.
From The Verge • Aug. 8, 2018
Catastrophizing a sleep problem, however, tends to further engrain it, says Shives.
From US News • Sep. 29, 2016
Almost all of those skills and capabilities need to be learned by doing — doing them enough to engrain new habitual ways of behaving and thinking.
From Forbes • Oct. 1, 2014
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