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impermeable

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


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The ancient, ultra-hard material before them was, to most things, completely impermeable.

From BBC Aug. 18, 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

Decades of rapid urban development have encased the city with impermeable concrete surfaces that hinder the natural drainage of water.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2025

Their technology involves pumping through fissures in the ground and squirting the carbon-rich material thousands of feet down, beneath a rock layer that should be impermeable for centuries.

From Salon Jul. 18, 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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