as in static
incapable of moving or being moved
the driveway had to be built to curve around an irremovable tree
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Recent Examples of irremovable
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in his dissent in Myers v. United States in 1925 would have required even postmasters to be confirmable and even irremovable by the president.
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George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
Impeachment is an irremovable stain on any presidency, and Trump knows it.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Dec. 2019
George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
Impeachment is an irremovable stain on any presidency, and Trump knows it.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irremovable
Adjective
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The interest in tactical is a subset of the larger ETF market move into active strategies as opposed to static index ETFs.—
Eric Rosenbaum,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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Over the course of the novel the correspondents remain largely frozen in static attitudes, emotionally unmoved by the events they’re caught up in.—
Chelsea Leu,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Wait long enough and the immovable object will eventually bend.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Dec. 2024
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Nemesis is the story of two men on either side of the law, the tale of what happens when an unstoppable force, expert criminal Coltrane Wilder (Noel), meets an immovable object, brilliant police detective Isaiah Stiles (Law).—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Though onscreen the plot necessitated that these women wind up married (and presumably with a mortgage), the fantasy of the single girl in her apartment has proved unmovable.—
Jennifer Wilson,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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The Penguins view a very small list of players as being unmovable.—
Josh Yohe,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Sometimes they are also used off-label, for treatment-resistant depression, or catatonia, a syndrome that can cause a patient to move in unusual ways, become immobile or stop talking.—
Christina Caron,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Photos from the scene showed snow pounding down as cars sat immobile in the center of the highway.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In other words, to make its conventional arsenal survivable, the United States must replace its current stock of fixed and visible assets with elusive forces in multiple domains, following the nuclear triad model.—
ANDREW S. LIM,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Because the actual date of the spring equinox can differ by a day or two, the Catholic Church created a fixed date of March 21 to define it, known as the ecclesiastical equinox.—
Carlie Procell,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Ultrasounds Purpose: Ultrasound imaging, also known as sonography, is a type of scan that works in real-time, rather than producing a still image after the fact, according to the Food and Drug Administration.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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This wouldn't be a bad compromise for general use, but because the Nature Cam Pro pulls its still images from video clips, pictures drop down all the way to 1.3MP.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Irremovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irremovable. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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