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

“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

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

All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

From "1984" by George Orwell