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
  • This administration is leading us down a dark path and putting an indelible stain on every institution, badge and public official that no presidential pardon will or should ever wash away.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
  • The film left an indelible mark on Hollywood’s cinematic history.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • In his version of our political life, our deepest and most ineradicable habits of mind push some of us to indulge in radical fantasies about the rest of us.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
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
  • In 2023, the rapper/singer spoke to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and talked about the birth of that immortal couplet.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 12 May 2025
  • That would be the immortal Jerry Dybzinski, whose base-running gaffe in Game 4 of the 1983 American League Championship Series proved costly in an extra-inning loss to the Baltimore Orioles.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • Several works from these exhibitions have become permanent fixtures on the estate.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Rose’s permanent ban was lifted eight months after his death and came a day before the Cincinnati Reds will honor baseball’s career hits leader with Pete Rose Night.
    Ronald Blum, Twin Cities, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 22 May. 2025.

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