impervious
Example Sentences
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Oil giants now have a bigger share of crude production in their hands and are largely impervious to price swings, ensuring a steady output.
I confess I’m not impervious to the posthumous allure.
From Los Angeles Times
Just a random mix of letters, impervious to attack by any known strategy.
From Literature
While investors are shrugging off “volatile policy headlines” on expectations for earnings and economic growth, “neither are impervious,” Essaye cautioned.
From MarketWatch
In fact, Roger Pielke, a longtime climate scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, notes U.S. emissions have been remarkably impervious to presidential terms: relative to economic output, they have declined steadily for decades.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
