ineffaceable

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Recent Examples of ineffaceable The relic, with ghostly, ineffaceable traces of the original handiwork, is in the show. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffaceable
Adjective
  • Or is there value in those who can’t or won’t partake in the rat race, namely the average majority whose time alive may leave no indelible mark?
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Other powerhouse executives being honored include Angi Bones (president of original programming at Tyler Perry Studios), Denise Williams Watts (Apple Music) and Felicia Joseph (Disney Entertainment Television), each of whom have left an indelible mark on the entertainment landscape.
    Janeé Bolden, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Overall, the small gap in pre-puberty performance doesn’t seem like strong evidence of ineradicable differences between males and females.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2025
  • But the question upon which second chances rely is this: What kind of conversations can our ineradicable guilt make possible, or even inspire?
    Adam Phillips, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • As art historian Nell Andrew writes in the exhibition catalog, the indissoluble coupling of music and dance proved influential in Orphism’s pictorial tendencies (much in the way that figure and ground often prove indistinguishable in Orphic imagery).
    Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • They are linked in an essential, indissoluble bond.
    Llewellyn King, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • And so Rose, immortal on the field, with a bat, was judged immoral off it by the saints who guard baseball’s gate.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This saved 100,000 jobs across the city and paved the way for Dining Out NYC, the city’s permanent outdoor dining program, one of the largest in the nation.
    Dr. Mitchell Katz, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • These shifts can reflect temporary organizational experiments rather than permanent devaluations of marketing leadership.
    Roger Dooley, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For it is a law of nature that if a deathless copy is produced, waste must follow; and that waste from such copies results in the death of real, living nature.
    Maria Balaska, TIME, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Fire and water have hogged the spotlight for too long; smoke has its own glamour, its own deathless wriggle.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025

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“Ineffaceable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffaceable. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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