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third-person singular simple present inheres, present participle inhering, simple past and past participle inhered
(uncommon) To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something. quotations examples
We had already been claimed by the split infinitives of Star Trek, were already preparing to boldly go into a world where ethics, so far from inhering in the very structure of the cosmos, was a matter of personal taste […] .
2001, Will Self, Feeding Frenzy
Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.
5 January 2009, John Kraemer, Larry Gostin, The Guardian