ineffaceable

Example Sentences

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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
  • Critics have praised Jessie Buckley’s and Paul Mescal’s indelible performances as Agnes and William Shakespeare — alongside a breakout turn from young Jacobi Jupe as the titular character.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
  • An indelible sense of time and place defines the Best New Restaurants of 2025.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 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
  • They are linked in an essential, indissoluble bond.
    Llewellyn King, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The love trial ended in mutual frustration, but their bond was indissoluble.
    Charles McNultyTheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • Ne Zha’s mother is transmogrified into a magical pill at the hands of the story’s villainous mastermind, the immortal Wuliang.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Hounsou will play an immortal warrior from Africa.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Suspicious activity could lead to the disqualification of candidates and a permanent suspension of the Athlete of the Week poll.
    Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The job cuts are permanent, and employees will not have bumping rights to other positions.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 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
  • For it is a law of nature that if a deathless copy is produced, waste must follow; and that waste from such copies results in the death of real, living nature.
    Maria Balaska, TIME, 25 Jan. 2025

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“Ineffaceable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffaceable. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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