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as in sacred
not to be violated, criticized, or tampered with
the teacher's book of grades is sacrosanct, and someone could be expelled for changing anything in it
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as in holy
set apart or worthy of veneration by association with God
believers eventually built a chapel on the sacrosanct spot where the miracle was thought to have taken place
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Rittenhouse soon took on celebrity status in right-wing circles where the right to bear arms and use them to defend life and property is sacrosanct.
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
The idea that physicists are free to choose their measurement settings, the notion of a universe that is local and obeys Albert Einstein’s laws, and the expectation that the outcome of a measurement one makes is true for all observers all seem sacrosanct on their face.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
The right to life being the source of all rights, the property necessary to sustain life was sacrosanct.
—Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
This notion of comedy and politics as separate is one Seinfeld clearly holds sacrosanct.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 14 June 2024
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
The idea that physicists are free to choose their measurement settings, the notion of a universe that is local and obeys Albert Einstein’s laws, and the expectation that the outcome of a measurement one makes is true for all observers all seem sacrosanct on their face.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
The right to life being the source of all rights, the property necessary to sustain life was sacrosanct.
—Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
This notion of comedy and politics as separate is one Seinfeld clearly holds sacrosanct.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 14 June 2024
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“Sacrosanct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacrosanct. Accessed 13 Oct. 2024.
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