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imperviousness



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Maybe she had a false sense of imperviousness, given all the times the house on Roca Chica Drive escaped, unscathed.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2025

Then there's the imperviousness to public disgrace, disdain, degradation or humiliation.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2024

There is something unnerving about the static nature of his image, of its imperviousness to the passage of time and his own ballooning wealth.

From New York Times Nov. 2, 2021

And yet what’s expected of Biles upon arrival here is imperviousness, an ability to ball all that up and toss it to the side.

From Washington Post Jul. 27, 2021

Eril-Fane explained its properties to them—its imperviousness to everything, all heat, all tools.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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