in·built

[in-bilt]
adjective
built-in ( def 2 ).

Origin:
1920–25; in-1 + built

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inbuilt

adjective
existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth" [syn: built-in
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Inbuilt is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
History shows that, inbuilt though that capacity may be, ideas can short-circuit it.
With no inbuilt vigilance checks and zero accountability, it was bound to be there.
Whether the inbuilt chemical protection of such genetically modified crops has reduced the use of pesticide is highly contested.
Their inbuilt scepticism of markets as being able to regulate anything is well established.
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