sacrosanct
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Bidding to succeed his former mentor in 1995, Jospin shocked many Socialists by claiming a "right of inventory" over Mitterrand's legacy -- a right to reassess a record that loyalists deemed sacrosanct.
From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026
“The former defendants in this case, like any other defendant in this situation, still enjoy the presumption of innocence held sacrosanct in our constitutional order,” the judge writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
In other words, it may be feared that property rights, in America, are no longer sacrosanct.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 23, 2026
The organization’s refusal to change from its founding precepts is what makes those precepts sacrosanct to some and archaic to others.
From Slate • Sep. 10, 2025
I was walking with a guard—behind and a little to the right of her so my feet would not touch the sacrosanct mat—down a corridor I had not seen before.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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