impermeable
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The ancient, ultra-hard material before them was, to most things, completely impermeable.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
One of the reed-covered mounds was located directly above a point where freshwater was rising through a break in the impermeable layer beneath the lake.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026
“Europe needs to make itself impermeable to every interference” by outside powers, whether the U.S. or Russia, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
It is the fantasy of an impermeable barrier that allows one’s purity to remain unsullied.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024
But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing impermeable
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 32
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