impermeable
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The ancient, ultra-hard material before them was, to most things, completely impermeable.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Although scientists once believed that the placenta was a tight, impermeable barrier separating mother and child, that’s not true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Decades of rapid urban development have encased the city with impermeable concrete surfaces that hinder the natural drainage of water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
It is the fantasy of an impermeable barrier that allows one’s purity to remain unsullied.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024
But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing impermeable
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 32
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