ineffaceable

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Recent Examples of ineffaceable The relic, with ghostly, ineffaceable traces of the original handiwork, is in the show. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffaceable
Adjective
  • Pure Heroine and Melodrama left indelible marks on mainstream music; Lorde is instrumental to the 21st-century whisper-singer epidemic.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • Reflecting on her journey, Pohl points to one person who’s left an indelible mark on her career.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • To be raped is to confront this particular evil, a staining, ineradicable harm that is not reducible to physical, or even psychological, trauma.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • Overall, the small gap in pre-puberty performance doesn’t seem like strong evidence of ineradicable differences between males and females.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • They are linked in an essential, indissoluble bond.
    Llewellyn King, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • The pair are part of a series of works which will lead to the creation of an immortal garden, suitable for any landscape, pulling inspiration from plants and trees which aid humanity either by granting us shad More sculpture by Pelletti is on display at Bowman Sculpture.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • The Old Guard 2 (Netflix movie) Andy (Charlize Theron) and her team of immortal warriors face a powerful new foe.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Senate has also proposed a number of amendments, some of which undo the proposals put forward by the House, chief among them, making Opportunity Zones a permanent program, and allowing governors to reopen the window to nominate new tracts every ten years.
    Oludolapo Makinde, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • The company is searching for a permanent replacement.
    Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Karma wins in the end, but so does fiction—and there, waiting for the right moment to make a pass from your nightstand, the Shining Prince is truly deathless.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 June 2025
  • Fire and water have hogged the spotlight for too long; smoke has its own glamour, its own deathless wriggle.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025

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“Ineffaceable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffaceable. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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