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

Unfortunately, the Dodgers are not impervious to injury issues.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2025

Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, apparently remains impervious to Trump's charms and threats alike.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2025

It had remained impervious, and so the bulk of the charge, meeting perfect resistance from above, had had nowhere to blow but...down.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor