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imperviousness



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Real neighborhoods continued to succumb around me, though, each one chipping away at that irrational feeling of imperviousness.

From Slate Jan. 9, 2025

Then there's the imperviousness to public disgrace, disdain, degradation or humiliation.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2024

It’s fun, nonetheless, to catalog everybody’s imperviousness to embarrassment.

From New York Times Feb. 24, 2022

And yet what’s expected of Biles upon arrival here is imperviousness, an ability to ball all that up and toss it to the side.

From Washington Post Jul. 27, 2021

Eril-Fane explained its properties to them—its imperviousness to everything, all heat, all tools.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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