Ingrained in a sentence as an adjective

"Teams", "us vs them" is ingrained in our tribal brains.

I've seen them work successfully at large firms where they were ingrained, and the companies had other cultural norms to increase teamwork.

But because of deeply ingrained Confucian cultural values about submission to elders, there's little they can do about it.

It's a deeply ingrained cultural, and perhaps biological, norm that men make proposals and the women evaluate them.

When you're dealing with something as ingrained and as prevalent as the automobile, you're talking about a massive boost in these things across the entire world.

Basically, when an infant's needs are not met, they get distressed, and the more often this occurs, the more those neurological pathways become ingrained in their brains.

I also point out to women when they're putting up with sexist behavior, because it's so ingrained in our culture that too few even recognize it properly.

It got ingrained into our cultural consciousness: Macs are overpriced, they underperform.

Belief in a strong, super-genius, infallible leader that we can never equal and/or please, may be ingrained in our brains, be it religion or, as in this case, CEO worship.

Pinterest is an example of a real threat to Facebook - a site that was designed with social and e-commerce ingrained in the product with an easy to use interface.

Infants dont even babble at this age never mind produce or understand adult speech, but they have already stopped noticing certain differences in speechthats how deeply ingrained the way we perceive and produce speech is, and why its almost impossible to speak a non-native language without an accent.

Ingrained definitions

adjective

(used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; "deep-rooted prejudice"; "deep-seated differences of opinion"; "implanted convictions"; "ingrained habits of a lifetime"; "a deeply planted need"

See also: deep-rooted deep-seated implanted planted