impermeable
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Although scientists once believed that the placenta was a tight, impermeable barrier separating mother and child, that’s not true.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
It is the fantasy of an impermeable barrier that allows one’s purity to remain unsullied.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024
Roberts said that Chiquita Canyon was far behind schedule with the installation of a large impermeable cover, which was intended to suppress odors.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024
Prato demonstrated the method earlier this week outside the emergency department of Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, packing ice cubes inside an impermeable blue bag around a medical dummy representing a patient.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024
They tie nkisis of leaves around their wrists and declare themselves impermeable to bullets, immune to death.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing impermeable
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 32
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Challenge, List 12
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