interminable
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He criticized the wars of his predecessors not because they were interminable but because they were unprofitable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Some matches drag on in interminable tedium, others are over in the blink of an eye.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
It was an example of what’s become an interminable debate about what should be required of homeowners in L.A.’s fire-prone areas to limit the destruction of future conflagrations.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025
For Katy Fry, a 33-year-old software engineer from Nashville, the situation made an already-long layover feel interminable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
He may shovel there in that interminable dark, unable to stand; otherwise, crouched upon his knees, sliding upon his belly, with no air to breathe; he who should be at our side.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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