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Recent Examples of ineffaceable
The relic, with ghostly, ineffaceable traces of the original handiwork, is in the show.
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Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffaceable
Adjective
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Howard McNear provided an indelible bit of local flavor as the genial, if absent-minded, town barber, Floyd.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 June 2026
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But its center is the group’s founder and leader Maurice White, a complicated musical visionary who created some of the most indelible funk and pop gems while running the group with an iron fist and underpaying most of the other members.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
6 June 2026
Adjective
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Here is Strout at her most emotionally precise, capturing a universal human longing in a single ineradicable image.—
Julia M. Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
5 May 2026
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Any novel about a train is a study of society and its ineradicable divisions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Julia M. Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
5 May 2026
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They are linked in an essential, indissoluble bond.—
Llewellyn King,
Forbes,
28 Nov. 2023
Adjective
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In his bid to control the narrative, Lestat becomes an immortal glam rocker who launches a music tour and enlists the same journalist — newly turned into a vampire — to direct and film a music documentary about his life.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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The 1962 film version featured the immortal lineup of Gregory Peck playing lawyer Sam Bowden and Robert Mitchum as ex-con Max Cady.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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The 40,000-square-foot facility will include a permanent exhibit gallery, rotating exhibit areas, a research library, flexible education rooms and an indoor/outdoor pavilion.—
Staff,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
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The Lower Basin states recently proposed slashing their water allotments by about 20% annually and asked Upper Basin states to commit to permanent cuts to ensure water keeps flowing south.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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There is the deathless debate around the compatibility — or otherwise — of winning and entertaining.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2026
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This is the Christ showing, revealing, lighting the world so bright that the man of God’s creating must be seen – free of sin, free of disease, deathless, eternal.—
Kit Cornell Kurtz,
Christian Science Monitor,
25 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Ineffaceable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffaceable. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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