How to Use unalterable in a Sentence

unalterable

adjective
  • Dworkin, too, sees the system as closed, but not unalterable.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Facts are the harshest and the hardest part of life, and yet facts, unalterable, bring with them some order and logic.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
  • But there are ways get around this unalterable fact; happily, there is a black market for the right genetic stuff.
    Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
  • But this is no longer Adams’ America, where facts were unalterable.
    Lee McIntyre, The Conversation, 25 July 2019
  • Who have that hunger for something permanent and unalterable?
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2012
  • By the evening of this fateful day, the great nations of Europe will be on an unalterable course toward world war.
    Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Empathy is not like a person’s adult height, something unalterable.
    K.n.c., The Economist, 7 June 2019
  • China might also look at these war games and conclude the United States is on an unalterable course toward war.
    Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Still, the freedoms outweighed the challenges, and all of Green's requirements could be met without the distraction of an unalterable floor plan.
    Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 26 July 2019
  • And all the things that seemed unalterable have been disrupted — including the holy celebration of Easter.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • However, one thing that seems unalterable with ABS is any value attached to how catchers frame pitches.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • That hopeful idea is the polar opposite of a natural, unalterable rate of unemployment.
    Mike Konczal, Vox, 4 May 2018
  • Though a vintage wedding dress comes with strings attached—there might be repairs, unalterable elements, or imperfections due to age, the upside is endless.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But if removal isn’t possible, Paul should employ the same strategy as anyone who risks being screened out due to unalterable circumstances.
    Marie G. McIntyre, The Seattle Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • In the context of climate change, the unalterable hard fact is that global emissions must reach their peak within the next two to three years and then swiftly reduce by half by 2030.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Some scientists insisted that the races had been created separately and remained unequal and unalterable.
    Eric Foner, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Real people are living a vision of the economy as a place of moral action and accountability, rather than a value-free, self-regulating zone of unalterable laws.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The real threat to Senate Democrats lies in the unalterable realities of human mortality.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2021
  • And in this case, one uncomfortable reality is that both wind and solar are dogged by a range of problems caused by intermittency, the unalterable fact that the wind doesn’t always blow, and the sun doesn’t always shine.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Trust is rebuilt through continuous, unalterable telemetry, not manual audits.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • McKay said in an interview that the various anomalies on display this summer, while unsettling, do not mean major systems around the planet have crossed some unalterable threshold.
    Brady Dennis and Scott Dance, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Cryptocurrency is a type of digital money secured via encryption in a publicly viewable and purportedly unalterable way.
    David Hamilton, ajc, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Whenever someone buys an NFT, the purchase is recorded on a transparent and unalterable blockchain that lets everyone see who the current owner is.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 9 May 2022
  • And getting to the bottom of the complex psychological accounting that leads someone to make such an unalterable decision is nearly impossible.
    William D. Cohan, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2016
  • This deeply worrying study documents how the costs of climate warming can be subtle and difficult to detect, whilst at the same time, its effects upon biodiversity are powerful and potentially unalterable.
    Grrlscientist, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • But what really frustrates me isn’t the persistence of special pleading across shifts in partisan control — which is, as Burke pointed out, a predictable manifestation of unalterable human nature.
    John Hood, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The one unalterable truth of the last six decades is that America cannot create a nation out of humanitarian gestures and upbeat, but duplicitous, pronouncements from Washington.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • That was an unalterable dictum of political success until Biden finished fourth in Iowa in 2020 followed by a dismal fifth-place finish in New Hampshire.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That means that creationists, anti-vaccine activists, GMO opponents, and hardcore climate change skeptics, to name just a few groups that have fixed, unalterable views, cannot be persuaded by reason, no matter how it's packaged.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2010
  • For instance, blockchain technology can establish an unalterable record of identity verification, ensuring that executive data remains intact and secure.
    Damodar Selvam, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024

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