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Definition

firmly within

in various senses, including:

firmly stuck into — as a thorn into a finger
enclosed within — as a fossil within a rock
implanted as a part — sometimes specifically of a reporter living with a military unit

embedded = firmly stuck into

found pebbles embedded in the silt
The computer chip is embedded in the control panel.
The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division
stone containing many embedded fossils
an embedded subordinate clause
confused by the embedded Latin quotations
...the house with bits of glass embedded in the walls-
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Speak

embedded = partially implanted in

...whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado

imbedded = firmly stuck into

It was some form of chalky granite, or a sandstone, but imbedded in it were large pieces of a darker stone, a harder and darker stone.
Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet

imbedded = implanted as pieces of it

That old warehouse embedded with coal dust.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead.
Ray Bradbury -- A Sound of Thunder
While he pulled on a shirt Nas Ta Bega made the rope fast to a snag of a log of driftwood embedded in the sand, and the boat swung to shore.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
Instead it swiped downward with both blade-studded hands where Thomas now knelt before it, his sword embedded in the monster's flesh.
James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials
Please don't let this glass have chicken wire embedded in it, I remembered to pray at the last second.
James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
Feyd-Rautha jerked and sagged back, still held partly on his side by the needle imbedded in the floor.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
There seem to be several points of view embedded within the article, though each of them is indignant and righteous in tone.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
It is a physiological and psychological reaction, embedded in his being.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
Bees boomed down the purple tunnels of flowers; bees embedded themselves on the golden shields of sunflowers.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
He spun away from Drizzt and dove at the mirror embedded in the tower wall.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard

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