imperishable
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"Like Sherlock Holmes, it's an imperishable myth and, really, if anyone gives you the chance to have a go at it - you have to do it," he explains.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2024
In Mexico, far from the locus of her imperishable pain, Chaarte found moments of peace.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024
First performed on Broadway in 1957 and brought to the screen four years later, it survives as both a time capsule and a reservoir of imperishable songs.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021
When the novel was published in the mid-'70s, the composite model for this imperishable tyrant was Spain’s Francisco Franco and the rogues’ gallery of Caribbean and Latin American caudillos, or “strong men.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2021
The hide shrank and pulled joist and rafter tight together, and the leather ropes became hard as iron and nearly imperishable.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing imperishable
Slaughterhouse-Five
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3.2: Postclassical States: Byzantine Empire and European Kingdoms (Sources 1–8)
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