as in sacred
not to be violated, criticized, or tampered with
a person with inviolable moral standards an inviolable trust between lawyer and client
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Recent Examples of inviolable
Trump’s prosecution by social media, and Bondi’s eager compliance, cross yet another line once thought inviolable.
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
Summer is usually the time of long days and longer vacations, but summer 2025 was a season where the business world’s inviolable godhead, the chief executive officer, looked less and less like a position worth exalting.
—Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The debate is shifting to how much of Russia's battlefield victories will be accepted, rather than over rights and the inviolable nature of international borders.
—Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The 2022 Dobbs decision changed his calculus, though, as a federal right seen as inviolable was taken away.
—Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2025
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
Summer is usually the time of long days and longer vacations, but summer 2025 was a season where the business world’s inviolable godhead, the chief executive officer, looked less and less like a position worth exalting.
—Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The debate is shifting to how much of Russia's battlefield victories will be accepted, rather than over rights and the inviolable nature of international borders.
—Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The 2022 Dobbs decision changed his calculus, though, as a federal right seen as inviolable was taken away.
—Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inviolable
Adjective
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The lethal nature of mosquitoes is ancient knowledge, encoded in some of our most sacred texts.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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Earlier this offseason, Texas Tech went public with its anger at the Big 12 and commissioner Brett Yormark for scheduling a Friday night game against Houston, pitting a matchup of two of the state’s college teams against the sacred Texas tradition of Friday night high school football.—
David Ubben,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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Playing the rivalry at any other time would be an affront to all that’s good and holy.—
Austin Meek,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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In such a distrustful environment, everything that should be pure or holy or human is crushed under the weight of a state only interested in its own self-perpetuation.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2026
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“Inviolable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inviolable. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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