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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Electric roads are viewed as part of a broader charging ecosystem rather than a replacement for static chargers.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Still, the pipeline may only barely put Mesa’s water budget in the black under the static reduction.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Alexis told the outlet her legs hurt and can become immovable for short periods of time because of the disorder.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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But in military settings, where the stakes are life and death and the bureaucracy is immovable, big ideas are only as good as your ability to embed them in existing systems.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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So this is really one to watch, because historically the MAGA base has been unmovable.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
14 Dec. 2025
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Apple may seem like an unmovable force today, sitting at number four on the Fortune 500 and having sold more than three billion iPhones.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
11 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Outfitted with a messy wig and white clothes, the robot remains motionless before suddenly collapsing to all fours and crawling, evoking scenes straight out of The Ring or The Exorcist.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Tanev immediately dropped to the ice and was motionless for a bit before medical personnel quickly wheeled out a stretcher.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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There’s no forgetting the (quite long) final scene in which the shirtless star does his best to sell a battle between himself and a mostly immobile Satan as nothing less than the ultimate clash between good and evil (while one of Thor’s songs plays on the soundtrack, naturally).—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Except when the characters are actually working among the vines, the cast’s performances are largely immobile and their speech declamatory.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And if no bus runs to your destination, there might be a dolmuş, a yellow van that runs on a fixed route, but stops whenever a passenger requests it and leaves whenever the van is full.—
Katie Nadworny,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Nov. 2025
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There’s no fixed size for small business security, but a common range is 20 to 25 devices.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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On November 27, Threads user @terabear14 posted a still image from the first episode of Stranger Things Season 5, showing a missing poster for Jane Hopper (Millie Bobby Brown)—better known as Eleven—pinned to a hallway wall at Hawkins High School.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Nov. 2025
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The project is composed of 1,500 pages of still-life photos of objects she’s collected throughout her life.—
James Manso,
Footwear News,
19 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The state’s investigation, Bry said, gives hope to hockey parents across the country who feel stuck in a system in which corporate interests exploit families and kids’ passions for profit.—
Kenny Jacoby,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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According to Shelter Animals Count, large breeds make up 29 percent of all shelter intakes but only 26 percent of adoptions, leaving many stuck in kennels while smaller dogs find homes more quickly.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Irremovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irremovable. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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