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Recent Examples of inextinguishable Even more tickling, however, is Karin’s evolving reaction, played with inextinguishable spirit by the wonderful Jacobsen. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025 This top-five matchup was pushed back a day due to winter storms plaguing the southeast, but the hype is nevertheless inextinguishable. Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 The candle that is Elton John has been inextinguishable, no matter how strong the wind. Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024 Even more tickling, however, is Karin’s evolving reaction, played with inextinguishable spirit by the wonderful Jacobsen. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025 Last to arrive are Rick (Walton Goggins) and Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), a couple whose attachment to one another is hard to parse given his disinterest in her and her youthful, inextinguishable brightness toward him. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025 During the hottest summer on record, both humans and animals struggle to cope as inextinguishable fires draw closer. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025 This top-five matchup was pushed back a day due to winter storms plaguing the southeast, but the hype is nevertheless inextinguishable. Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 The candle that is Elton John has been inextinguishable, no matter how strong the wind. Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inextinguishable
Adjective
  • One of Mac's costars, the late A.J. Johnson, remembered his enduring sense of humor fondly.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Archidamus’s next suggestion—form alliances to constrain the enemy’s options—has been similarly enduring.
    A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Mohamed Salah is a global icon with an unquenchable thirst for rewriting the record books.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Related Articles San Jose Earthquakes hosting free concert with superstar music act Stanford Jazz Festival announces deep lineup of music talent for 2025 Chalk it up to the great weather and locals’ unquenchable thirst for live music.
    Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Some say an Easter basket isn't complete without Peeps while others deride them as being indestructible.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Love them or loathe them, Peeps are the very adorable cockroaches of the candy world—brightly colored, impossibly squishy, and seemingly indestructible.
    Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Both records sum up the delicious fragmentation of the 2020’s — our seemingly insatiable appetite for novel combinations of rhythm and sound.
    Ernesto Lechner, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
  • However, as the brothers’ insatiable thirst for power ignites growing discord, the community fractures, and Rena’s family aligns with Ervil.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In reality, the change flows in the other direction, as new recruits enter the warm embrace of the imperishable military-industrial complex, eager to learn its ways.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Between July 2, 1935, and February 10, 1942, Holiday, backed by Teddy Wilson and his band, logged twenty-one studio sessions, yielding around seventy imperishable songs.
    Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 24 Mar. 2024
Adjective
  • As the exhibition illustrated, Pan-Africanism also corresponded with urgent anti-colonial, anti-apartheid, and civil rights movements worldwide.
    Delinda Collier, Artforum, 1 May 2025
  • That is the urgent story that authors Allen and Parnes ignored.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • This is where the immortal pumps, kitten heels, and even boho wooden platforms come into play.
    Renata Joffre, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Much later, in perhaps the movie’s most immortal scene, Darcy helps Elizabeth into a carriage by holding her ungloved hand.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Most people – even the most avid birders and aviculturists – have never seen nor even heard about these Neotropical parrots, and to the best of my knowledge, they are not kept in any zoo collections.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Comments As an avid shopper, my closet is often overflowing with clothes, which makes packing for trips a precarious experience.
    Bria McNeal, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Inextinguishable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inextinguishable. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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