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impermeable

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


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“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

The program levies a property tax on impermeable surfaces to provide around $300 million a year in grants for municipal stormwater capture projects.

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

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