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All of this creates a vicious cycle which feeds even more pressure back into an overwhelmed system, while entrenching disadvantage and fuelling distrust.

I am unsure how it became synonymous with this time of year, but it is fully entrenched.

And yet, thanks to the past century's developments in cognitive science and now artificial intelligence, we have entrenched a view of the brain that doesn't spend much time on this dynamic.

Harvie added: "People across Scotland need real change to improve their lives in the face of a broken economic system that is entrenching inequality."

Though she later became the first college graduate in her family, she continued to face “entrenched sexism and racism” at work and drank to cope.