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in-house

[in-hous, in-hous] / ˈɪnˌhaʊs, ˈɪnˈhaʊs /
ADJECTIVE
inlying
Synonyms
WEAK
autogenous domestic endogenous gut home inland innermost inside interior internal intimate inward private remote secret visceral viscerous
ADJECTIVE
interior
Synonyms
STRONGEST
internal remote
STRONG
domestic gut home intimate private secret
WEAK
autogenous endogenous inland inner innermost inward visceral viscerous
Antonyms
STRONG
business open public revealed unconcealed
WEAK
exterior external outer outside
ADJECTIVE
internal
Synonyms
STRONGEST
constitutional domestic intramural national private subjective
WEAK
centralized circumscribed civic enclosed gut home indigenous inherent innate inner innermore inside interior intestine intimate intrinsic inward municipal native visceral viscerous
Antonyms
WEAK
external outer

Example Sentences

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Google has been designing its in-house, custom chips for over a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Gorka, who had worked at Bannon’s right-wing Breitbart outlet, was appointed to the Strategic Initiatives Group, an in-house think tank at the White House.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

He also drove the company’s transition to custom silicon, allowing Apple to have more control over its hardware and software ecosystem through the use of in-house chips.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

Broadcom is the main partner in developing Google’s Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, the search company’s in-house AI chips.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

“You gonna do all that, just because you got in-house detention?”

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake