indelibly

as in forever
for all time the advertiser hopes that the slogan will be indelibly imprinted on consumers' memories

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Recent Examples of indelibly However, the details of that final inning are indelibly stamped in all their memories. — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026 Both are indelibly So Cal Books, filled with Fontana, East Hollywood, Santa Ana, Los Feliz, and San Bernardino, and the readers were from all these places. — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 The deadliest attack on the United States of America, 9/11 is seared indelibly in our nation’s memory. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2026 Off-White’s cachet is indelibly intertwined with Abloh’s legacy, who utilized it as a platform for his inclusive, collective approach to fashion creation — an approach whose ultimate agenda was to further access and inclusion. — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026 This version of the flag would, in the following years, become indelibly associated with LGBTQ+ pride, and there are now multiple variations. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026 That short-passing style, woven indelibly into the country’s soccer identity, took root in their club system, most notably at Ajax in the 1970s. — Duncan White, New York Times, 15 June 2026 This year marks the 125th anniversary of the Insular Cases, a notorious series of Supreme Court decisions beginning in May 1901 that indelibly shaped the nation’s democracy. — Austin Bussing, The Conversation, 4 June 2026 To my spouse Paige Lewis, the past decade sprinting to keep up with your mind has made my own indelibly quicker, wiser, and more humane. — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indelibly
Adverb
  • No one has actually won the war, so the sides have to continue negotiating/fighting forever.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Like the boutique hotel concept that forever changed Florence’s hospitality landscape, the new residential concept was envisaged as a place people want to come back to again and again.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • The projector itself is a near cube permanently attached to a gimbal mount.
    — M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The Roseville Telephone Museum has permanently closed after 22 years, part of a broader strain on local institutions where 90% of Sacramento Area Museums members report urgent volunteer shortages.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • MacMahon transformed Ramanujan’s formulas into two kinds of partitions that looked nothing alike, but whose counts always came out identical.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The Austin ensemble makes minimalism feel enveloping and unruly on its latest record, where new melodic details are always emerging from a swarming mass of sound.
    — Vanessa Ague, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Since God is eternal Spirit, God’s image must be wholly and eternally spiritual.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026
  • And this column is eternally grateful for his help in getting us through another day of quadrupleheader weirdness and wildness.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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“Indelibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indelibly. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.

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