as in protected
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not harmed or changed
These rights must remain inviolate.
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Recent Examples of inviolate
The Minnesota Constitution provides that the right to a jury trial be inviolate.
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Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
People respond to the shooting of elementary schoolchildren as a kind of acceptable mayhem to ensure that the right to gun ownership remains inviolate.
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Robin Givhan,
Washington Post,
1 Nov. 2022
This dish is a deli egg-bacon-and-cheese-on-a-roll that has been pasta-fied, fancified, fetishized and turned into an Italian tradition that, like many inviolate Italian traditions, is actually far less old than the Mayflower.
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Ian Fisher,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2022
The daily and seasonal rhythms of bright and dark remained largely inviolate throughout all of evolutionary time—a 4-billion-year streak that began to falter in the 19th century.
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Ed Yong,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2022
And whereas individual therapy must take place in an inviolate private sphere, the couples version comes with elements of exposure and artifice built in.
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Lidija Haas,
The New Republic,
10 June 2022
And determining whether human lifetimes have an inviolate maximum might offer clues to understanding aging, as well as aiding research on prolonging life.
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Tom Siegfried,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Jan. 2022
One inviolate rule is that everyone who enters must be weighed.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
3 Nov. 2021
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
People respond to the shooting of elementary schoolchildren as a kind of acceptable mayhem to ensure that the right to gun ownership remains inviolate.
—
Robin Givhan,
Washington Post,
1 Nov. 2022
This dish is a deli egg-bacon-and-cheese-on-a-roll that has been pasta-fied, fancified, fetishized and turned into an Italian tradition that, like many inviolate Italian traditions, is actually far less old than the Mayflower.
—
Ian Fisher,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2022
The daily and seasonal rhythms of bright and dark remained largely inviolate throughout all of evolutionary time—a 4-billion-year streak that began to falter in the 19th century.
—
Ed Yong,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2022
And whereas individual therapy must take place in an inviolate private sphere, the couples version comes with elements of exposure and artifice built in.
—
Lidija Haas,
The New Republic,
10 June 2022
And determining whether human lifetimes have an inviolate maximum might offer clues to understanding aging, as well as aiding research on prolonging life.
—
Tom Siegfried,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Jan. 2022
One inviolate rule is that everyone who enters must be weighed.
—
Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
3 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inviolate
Adjective
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For example, Paris has an aesthetic aversion to window units and rooftop HVAC systems, which helps explain why installing air-conditioning typically requires special permission from authorities, especially in protected or historic areas.
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Most of them encrypted files in non-protected folders, anywhere from a handful to 24,000.
Adjective
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The World Cup visitors being blown away by all that is America is pure entertainment.
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Post-split, one Comcast entity will be a pure-play entertainment content company, with NBCUniversal and Sky assets, while the other company will be a leading broadband, cable and wireless provider.
Adjective
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Swift will either ignore the noise as usual, or smile at the absurdity as a secure, proud childless cat lady.
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In the most recent message Levin received from the individual last week, Levin said the sender wrote that a video of Nancy Guthrie was on a cellphone in a secure place, and the sender again demanded 1 bitcoin in exchange for information.
Adjective
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His larger diagnosis is that the division machine has made every disagreement existential — and that once a political difference becomes sacred, people will rationalize almost anything to defeat the other side.
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But over time, and as reverence for the Revolutionary War generation grew, the political parties sought to prove themselves the truest guardians of the founding principles, transforming it from an argument for independence into a sacred document.
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“Inviolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inviolate. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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