deep-seated

Example Sentences

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Trot songs often express "han" - a deep-seated feeling of sorrow, resentment and longing shaped by Korea's history of foreign subjugation and one of the most enduring themes in Korean culture.

From BBC

Can Europe seize the moment and actually get a grip with some of the deep-seated problems that are behind the economic malaise?

From The Wall Street Journal

It warned that removing the waste could expose any slow-burning deep-seated fires to open air, risking greater combustion.

From BBC

This enduring fascination may stem as much from the paper-thin line that separates the two states as it does from our deep-seated fear of both.

From Los Angeles Times

Indeed, it seems we are wired to perform a kind of deep-seated method acting in social situations, “using information that doesn’t need to be taken into consciousness, thought about, or inferred,” Prochazhkova says.

From The Wall Street Journal