In a question I recently posted as to the difference between "intrinsic" and "inherent", an incidental issue arose. Which is more appropriate:
Inherent in…
or
Inherent to…
Gardner's Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage states that inherent takes the proposition in, not to.
Random House Dictionary uses the following example:
factors inherent in the situation.
Yet, Ngram viewer has similar statistics for both usages, and there seem to be different (trans-Atlantic?) intuitions.
Best Answer
The adjectival OED sense 3 of inherent can exist without preposition (sense 3a)
Where it exists in construction form (sense 3b) it is nowadays almost always with in, formerly with to and unto.
b. Const. in; formerly to, unto.
Oxford English Dictionary.
Having noted all that, I feel certain that I have personally used it with to.