inextricable
adjective
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On numerous occasions as president, Mr. Bush invoked the Frenchman when explaining that service and freedom are inextricable in American life. — C. Boyden Gray And, WSJ, "Here’s the Point of ‘Points of Light’," 1 Oct. 2018 Even after two decades, residents vividly remember the inextricable link between the town and the murder. — New York Times, "In Texas, a Decades-Old Hate Crime, Forgiven but Never Forgotten," 9 July 2018 Radicals might have insisted that illiberalism and state Zionism were inextricable; that the maintenance of a majority-Jewish nation in a predominantly Muslim region would inevitably require discriminatory policies. — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "Natalie Portman and the Crisis of Liberal Zionism," 26 Apr. 2018 Substantively, postwar liberals advocated an extension and expansion of the New Deal project while emphasizing, unlike some earlier Democrats, the inextricable connection between an egalitarian economic agenda and a commitment to civil rights. — Sam Rosenfeld, Vox, "The Democratic Party is moving steadily leftward. So why does the left still distrust it?," 22 June 2018 The act of measurement — observation, by someone or something — becomes an inextricable part of the theory. — James Gleick, New York Times, "What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World?," 8 May 2018 At 22, Ric Wilson has already unfurled a series of EPs that have established him as another in a long line of Young Chicago Authors alums whose music feels inextricable from the city in which it was created. — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, "Ric Wilson authors melodic hip-hop on 'Banba'," 18 May 2018 Her dream of a supportive lover sets her apart from her fellow denizens of Covent Garden, where the cycle of poverty is inextricable from the cycle of abuse. — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, "Broadway’s Original Mansplainer," 23 Apr. 2018 China is an inextricable part of the global supply chain, producing the piece parts of cars, gadgets, bluejeans and practically anything else made by human hands. — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, "Trump Says Getting Tough on Chinese Trade Will Empower U.S. He Risks the Opposite.," 22 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inextricable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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inextricable
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of inextricable
: impossible to separate : closely joined or related
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