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
“They have this palimpsest of a billion years of history.”
From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024
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
Looking out on the construction site where the twin towers once stood, he contemplates the many communities that dwelled there previously, deeming the area “a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.”
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022
But the most likely case is that interstellar communication will be a kind of palimpsest, like the palimpsests of ancient writers short of papyrus or stone who superimposed their messages on top of preexisting messages.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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