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  • adjective established as if settled into a groove or rut

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Examples

  • We walked our bikes around the fence, found the well-grooved trail on the other side, and set to pedaling again.

    Check Craig Lancaster 2011

  • After a week in which his weight has been much discussed Patel can now luxuriate in a match-turning moment of athleticism, flopping to his knees with well-grooved expertise as Akmal's drive died on him.

    Alastair Cook leads way with another ton as England beat Pakistan 2012

  • How, then, to pull out of those well-grooved psychological ruts?

    Big Achievers Share The Greatest Risks They Ever Took 2011

  • How, then, to pull out of those well-grooved psychological ruts?

    Big Achievers Share The Greatest Risks They Ever Took 2011

  • They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves.

    THE UNEXPECTED 2010

  • Your true nature will take care of everything, too often leaving yourself alone means leaving yourself to your habitual and well-grooved ways of eating.

    Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010

  • Your true nature will take care of everything, too often leaving yourself alone means leaving yourself to your habitual and well-grooved ways of eating.

    Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010

  • Hide his pipe or his favorite writing-table candle; then watch him go crazy in quick, well-grooved increments: the search, the distracted circular pacing in that odd half-capsized gait of his, and finally the screaming, cursing war dance.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Hide his pipe or his favorite writing-table candle; then watch him go crazy in quick, well-grooved increments: the search, the distracted circular pacing in that odd half-capsized gait of his, and finally the screaming, cursing war dance.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Something wistful, even youthful touched the woman's well-grooved face.

    Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

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