inalterable

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Decades later, and long after many of their congressional careers had ended, their support for Nixon would continue to linger over their legacies, an inalterable epitaph on their lives.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

And that is the story, then: When you destroy the data, that becomes the inalterable and sort of inviolate story of Patient H.M.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2016

Is Clara and the human race really going to die, negating all future inalterable "fixed points in time" that necessitate the human race live on?

From The Verge • Oct. 26, 2014

Indeed, I suspect most people still regard aging as an inalterable part of the human condition—a view reinforced by the fact that pharmaceutical companies just say no to anti-aging drug development.

From Scientific American • Dec. 20, 2011

“But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt