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

But Ms. Rolikova, the innkeeper, thought it was important to see it, and so she opened the padlocked door to reveal a palimpsest of Russia over the past century.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2023

Subsequent impact events can heat up parts of a rock, glazing it with fields from later times and creating a magnetic palimpsest.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 19, 2022

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