impermeable
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Rain watered crops, and soaked in to recharge the groundwater that hydrated the city — something that can’t happen now, when something like 40% of the city is covered over, impermeable to rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"We come to live in bubbles, impermeable to one another," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 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
Those that come close suddenly change direction before hitting her glove, bouncing off as though she is surrounded by something invisible and impermeable.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Vocabulary lists containing impermeable
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 32
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Challenge, List 12
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