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Adjective

1. 1
   Fully established or determined; standing on firm historical footing.

   "Ramos didn’t just announce a new rule. It reversed a prior, well-settled one."

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confirmeddeep dyeddeep rooteddeep seateddyed-in-the-woolembossed

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"Ramos didn’t just announce a new rule. It reversed a prior, well-settled one."

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