palimpsest
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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
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
There is a sort of palimpsest of thinking, reading: The ideas have been churning in the writer for years, but the agony of that work is nowhere to be found.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2022
All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing palimpsest
1984
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The Handmaid's Tale
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