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rooted

[roo-tid, root-id] / ˈru tɪd, ˈrʊt ɪd /
ADJECTIVE
implanted
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Jazzy is rooted in the Dublin club scene, starting her career as part of a group called Powerful Creative Minds in the city.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Rosario Forlenza, a professor at Rome's Luiss University, called it a "European generational revolt" rooted in a social and economic crisis "to which politicians cannot give a substantive response".

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

In July, he called Cooks proposing an entirely new series, this time looking beyond a European lineage to one rooted in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Dahlia Lithwick: So much of the work you’ve done has been rooted in this idea that our legal structures, in some ways by design, have always failed and continue to fail women and vulnerable communities.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Any large-scale human cooperation—whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe—is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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