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Recent Examples of impenetrability For certain travelers, though, especially those who gravitate toward conflict zones and geopolitical oddities, Turkmenistan’s impenetrability has given it an alluring mystique. Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 31 July 2025 Played with gruff impenetrability and a thinly veiled sadistic streak by David Shih, this big dog’s name is Mitsuo, but no one uses names in the heya — only ranks. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025 Curiously, this rediscovered impenetrability has come with Nick Pope, the undisputed No 1 goalkeeper, injured. Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025 Kim Gordon, The Collective A 71-year-old noise-rocker reciting spoken word over drum machines might scan as avant-garde impenetrability. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for impenetrability
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Noun
  • That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One cultural role of child stars, after all, is to embody for their moment the ambiguities of approaching adolescence.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There was less ambiguity in Minnesota; Rodgers was signed with the clear intention to start.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Impenetrability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impenetrability. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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