rooted in

be rooted in (something)

To originate in or stem from something. The decline of this city is rooted in the move away from local steel in the 1980s. Their form of government is rooted in socialism, though it also has elements of capitalism.
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root (something) in (something)

To place something, especially a plant, into something else in order for it to grow roots. I couldn't root any of the vegetables in my back yard because the soil was fool of rocks. You should root the flowers in pots before attempting to plant them in the ground.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rooted in something

based on something; connected to a source or cause. The civil war was rooted in old cultural hatred. This fictional book was rooted in actual events.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be rooted in (something)
  • trace back
  • put the blocks on
  • put the blocks on (something)
  • pickler
  • reach back into (some point in time)
  • reach back to
  • reach back to (some point in time)
  • originate
  • originate from
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Such an alliance was neither democratic nor rooted in principles of humanity.
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They saw America's "race problem" as rooted in its culture, environment, and disorganized families; and racial differences were social and psychological, not biological or innate.
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But the ownership of the GSBCA to hear contract's protests was not rooted in the Brooks Law.
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So much of Canadian cinema is rooted in a sense of place, and Sweeney's films, to a degree, continue this tradition.
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His methodology is rooted in interrogation and analysis, and his impulse is to deconstruct language, treating it as concrete, pliable material.
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Lewis' answer to that question is rooted in his childhood.
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In contrast, the emerging view during the scientific revolution was more clearly rooted in the underlying forces or laws that can be expressed mathematically.
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For these young people, doing anti-war work does not mean simply protesting a distant war in another country; it means challenging a war machine and industry whose workings are firmly rooted in the U.S., within their own communities.
Would America fight for me? What does organizing against militarism mean for youth of color? Not simply protesting a distant war in another country, but challenging a war industry firmly rooted within their own communities
Giesselmann is also critical of "ethno-cultural" analyses rooted in E.
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