impervious
Example Sentences
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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
They have been, thus far, impervious to waves.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025
These include the claim that children are virtually impervious to COVID, which has been refuted by the injury and death toll among children.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
She is very good at it, and impervious to danger.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
