impervious
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Properties with at least five acres of impervious surface will be subject to the rules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
But is Collins impervious to national trends, as the story goes?
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
From a tactical standpoint, the fort is unlikely to deter Hezbollah’s new crop of attack drones, which rely on fiber-optic cables and are impervious to jamming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
China also supplies drone parts to Ukraine, such as the fiber-optic cable used to make drones impervious to jamming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
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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