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immemorial

[im-uh-mawr-ee-uhl, -mohr-] / ˌɪm əˈmɔr i əl, -ˈmoʊr- /


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There is a robust consensus among scholars that politics in Iran begins with the idea of Iran as a people with a continuous and unbroken history, a nation that “looms out of an immemorial past.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

One would think the viruses and bacteria that have tormented humanity since time immemorial would never find a friend in the species — human beings — they so routinely sicken and kill.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2025

Researchers compared the genomes of the modern and historic individuals and found they belong to a unified lineage, supporting Blackfoot oral traditions that attest to their people’s presence here since time immemorial.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

This park, and all of Nunavut, is Inuit Nunangat -- Inuit homeland in Canada -- and the park protects sites and biodiversity stewarded by Inuit since time immemorial.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

Everywhere he looked, he saw a world made of stories, the long ago, time immemorial stories, as old Grandma called them.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko




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