impervious
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Oil giants now have a bigger share of crude production in their hands and are largely impervious to price swings, ensuring a steady output.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
I confess I’m not impervious to the posthumous allure.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
In fact, Roger Pielke, a longtime climate scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, notes U.S. emissions have been remarkably impervious to presidential terms: relative to economic output, they have declined steadily for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
But ferocious fire in recent years, fueled by climate change, has proved fatal to the trees experts once thought were impervious to flame.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
The outlet was blocked with some barrier, but not of stone: soft and a little yielding it seemed, and yet strong and impervious; air filtered through, but not a glimmer of any light.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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