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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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They are linked in an essential, indissoluble bond.—
Llewellyn King,
Forbes,
28 Nov. 2023
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The love trial ended in mutual frustration, but their bond was indissoluble.—
Charles McNultyTheater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Nov. 2022
Adjective
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Datini’s bride, Margherita, proved to be infertile; with no one to inherit his business empire, and increasingly concerned about the fate of his immortal soul, Datini left much of his estate to causes benefitting the poor.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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Thanks to Lin’s immortal mother, Zi Yuan (Michelle Yeoh), and a magical dagger that strips the Emperor of his immortality, Rick and Alex defeat him.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The Greenlandic government scrambled to reassure locals, informing them that Danish and other European troops would now be a permanent fixture on the island.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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Brides finds Sally Bishop (Cooke) and her husband on a trip to Northern Italy in 1961, where they get stranded at a remote villa run by the enigmatic Vova (Lawtey), who presides over a household of beautiful, deathless women (Turner-Smith, Prettejohn) and their caretaker (Gorman).—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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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
Cite this Entry
“Ineffaceable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffaceable. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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