palimpsest
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Mr. Chiasson sets about peeling back the layers on the palimpsest of Mr. Sanders’s life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
“They have this palimpsest of a billion years of history.”
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024
“She’s creating a palimpsest of different eras,” he says, noting that unlike L.A.’s streets, which are the city’s responsibility for upkeep, sidewalks are built and maintained by private developers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
But the codex is a palimpsest: parchment that was scraped clean of older text by the scribe so that it could be reused.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2022
“Just know that history is like a palimpsest manuscript. Know what that is?”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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