ineradicable

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The nation’s multilayered historical background has been variously stamped by a basic Arabic heritage, ineradicable remnants of protracted Ottoman Turkish rule and the long arm of the British colonial empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

How should millennial, liberal democracies balance legitimate national pride with an ineradicable legacy of wrongs done to indigenous peoples?

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2023

We are probably somewhat ineradicable — check out the near-extinction event from 73,000 years ago that left only a few thousand humans alive on the planet — that was a close one!

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2022

In Afrofuturism’s case, the original sin is slavery, a trauma so ineradicable that it can only be “overcome” by imagining some totally alternative, time-bending narrative involving a vibranium-depositing meteorite.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021

At a time when mental illness carried a deep and almost ineradicable stigma, Elizebeth refused to let it create a chasm between her and her husband.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield