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impermeable

[im-pur-mee-uh-buhl] / ɪmˈpɜr mi ə bəl /


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"We come to live in bubbles, impermeable to one another," he said.

From BBC Apr. 17, 2026

“Europe needs to make itself impermeable to every interference” by outside powers, whether the U.S. or Russia, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 19, 2026

The program levies a property tax on impermeable surfaces to provide around $300 million a year in grants for municipal stormwater capture projects.

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




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