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[ in-too; unstressed in-too, -tuh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

preposition

to the inside of; in toward:
He walked into the room. The train chugged into the station.
toward or in the direction of:
going into town.
to a point of contact with; against:
backed into a parked car.
(used to indicate insertion or immersion in):
plugged into the socket.
(used to indicate entry, inclusion, or introduction in a place or condition):
received into the church.
to the state, condition, or form assumed or brought about:
went into shock; lapsed into disrepair; translated into another language.
to the occupation, action, possession, circumstance, or acceptance of:
went into banking; coerced into complying.
(used to indicate a continuing extent in time or space):
lasted into the night; far into the distance.
(used to indicate the number to be divided by another number):
2 into 20 equals 10.
Informal. interested or absorbed in, especially obsessively:
She's into yoga and gardening.
Slang. in debt to:
I'm into him for ten dollars.

adjective

Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f ( x ) = x 2 for every integer.

into

/ ˈɪntuː; ˈɪntə /

preposition

to the interior or inner parts of
to look into a case
to the middle or midst of so as to be surrounded by
into the bushes
into the water
against; up against
he drove into a wall
used to indicate the result of a transformation or change
he changed into a monster
maths used to indicate a dividend
three into six is two
informal.
interested or enthusiastically involved in
I'm really into Freud these days

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of into¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English, Old English; in + to

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District Judge Paula Xinis launched a two-week effort to dig into the administration’s refusal to “facilitate” his return.

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If he arrives “at a port of entry,” DHS “would take him into custody ... and either remove him to a third country or terminate his withholding of removal because of his membership in MS-13, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and remove him to El Salvador.”

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Her decision has been called into question recently.

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In October 2019, Judge David M. Jones delved into Abrego Garcia’s flight from gangs in El Salvador and granted him a “withholding of removal.”

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Since he played his way from a two-way contract onto the Lakers roster and, eventually, into the starting lineup, he’s never thought anything asked of him has been too much.

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