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impossible to destroy, break up, or get rid of
an indissoluble contract They are bound together by indissoluble ties.
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Recent Examples of indissoluble
But his wife seems cool and his son distant, and 57-year-old Artie is plagued by an indissoluble loneliness that tempts him to end his life.
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Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2026
They are linked in an essential, indissoluble bond.
—Llewellyn King, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
But Céline’s reputation is indissoluble from his strange political fate.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022
Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
—Jack Butler, National Review, 22 Aug. 2021
The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual and as indissoluble as the union between the original States.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Dec. 2020
Despite the great minds wrestling with it, the vexed question of how to live continues to induce a state of indissoluble anxiety.
—Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
As art historian Nell Andrew writes in the exhibition catalog, the indissoluble coupling of music and dance proved influential in Orphism’s pictorial tendencies (much in the way that figure and ground often prove indistinguishable in Orphic imagery).
—Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2026
They are linked in an essential, indissoluble bond.
—Llewellyn King, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
But Céline’s reputation is indissoluble from his strange political fate.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022
Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
—Jack Butler, National Review, 22 Aug. 2021
The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual and as indissoluble as the union between the original States.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Dec. 2020
Despite the great minds wrestling with it, the vexed question of how to live continues to induce a state of indissoluble anxiety.
—Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
As art historian Nell Andrew writes in the exhibition catalog, the indissoluble coupling of music and dance proved influential in Orphism’s pictorial tendencies (much in the way that figure and ground often prove indistinguishable in Orphic imagery).
—Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indissoluble
Adjective
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O’Brien advised them to build a large, permanent air-force base, and to keep frigates on rotation in the Nuuk harbor, as a deterrent to the Russian and Chinese navies.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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But the attack never came and hours later, plans for the United States and Iran to sign a more permanent ceasefire deal in Geneva were being announced.—
Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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That this place, which has always been eternal, will outlast us.—
Jeff VanderMeer,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
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Those ideas are so powerful and eternal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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“Indissoluble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indissoluble. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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