impenetrable
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Frequently in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Samurai and the Prisoner,” characters insist that the film’s principal setting, a military compound known as Arioka Castle, is impenetrable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The journey will require an impenetrable will and a fearlessness to sacrifice everything for the sake of democracy for all.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
She’s everything I wasn’t and never would be: aggressively pink, fluffy and wrapped in an impenetrable privilege that appeared to reward her ditziness.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
But his impenetrable prose -- used to avoid committing to any particular course -- and his confidence in unfettered markets and institutions to correct themselves frustrated critics, who believed the US economy needed stronger guardrails.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
With its high brick walls and the barbed-wire livestock pens surrounding it, it seemed as impenetrable as any fortress.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Vocabulary lists containing impenetrable
The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Alchemist
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 1
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