Ingrained and Local

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Ingrained adjective - Being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing.

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Local and ingrained are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Local" instead an adjective "Ingrained".

Nearby Word: ingrain

Local adjective - Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood.

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Ingrained and local are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ingrained" instead an adjective "Local".

Nearby Words: location, locality, locale, localize, localised

Since many people having the same given names made nicknaming almost a necessity, this became so ingrained in local culture that even in the author's own day, the tradition continued on in the colorful schoolyard nicknaming of children.

Source: Literature / The Steel Bonnets
Baseball (US) / Football (UK): Sport that evolved in the late 1800s from local to national competition, becoming a deeply ingrained part of the national identity.

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Alien Abduction: Brown Mountain has apparently been the site of a large number of these over the years, and such disappearances are heavily ingrained in the local folklore as far back as the Native Americans.

Source: Film / Alien Abduction (2014)

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