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untouchable

[uhn-tuhch-uh-buhl] / ʌnˈtʌtʃ ə bəl /
ADJECTIVE
taboo
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The episode was a stunning rebuke for Rocha, who until now was seen as untouchable because of his close relationship with López Obrador.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Most of the remaining squad could also be available at the right price, though a small group of players are considered untouchable.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

In the decades since, that mark has become one of those sporting records that is considered not merely untouchable, but inconceivable in the modern game.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Mozeliak said he does not believe any player should be untouchable.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

I peer out through the glass of the train window, which is streaked with rain and dust, and there is the landscape of my early childhood, smudged and scentless and untouchable and moving backward.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

“There shouldn’t be some sort of untouchables list of people who are immune from enforcement.”

From Salon Jun. 10, 2026

They belong to the Dalit community, formerly known as untouchables, on the lowest rungs of the Hindu caste system, but Sunar said the family faced no ill-treatment over this.

From Reuters Aug. 17, 2022

National security advisers, who form a chain of foreign policy expertise from administration to administration, are mostly untouchables, too.

From Washington Post May 24, 2022

The young woman and her family are Dalits - men and women formerly known as "untouchables" who languish at the bottom of India's harsh caste hierarchy.

From BBC Sep. 28, 2021

The young doctor was soon famous for his willingness to help the poor and the untouchables.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri




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