palimpsest

Example Sentences

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Mr. Chiasson sets about peeling back the layers on the palimpsest of Mr. Sanders’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

“They have this palimpsest of a billion years of history.”

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024

“She’s creating a palimpsest of different eras,” he says, noting that unlike L.A.’s streets, which are the city’s responsibility for upkeep, sidewalks are built and maintained by private developers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

But the codex is a palimpsest: parchment that was scraped clean of older text by the scribe so that it could be reused.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2022

The billboards had been whited out with thin coats of paint in order to write on them and through the paint could be seen a pale palimpsest of advertisements for goods which no longer existed.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy