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inviolate

[in-vahy-uh-lit, -leyt] / ɪnˈvaɪ ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /




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If people can’t trust Social Security to keep their privacy inviolate, confidence in the entire program may well be shattered.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Because this crosses a line you maintain is inviolate, you might consider taking a trial separation while your husband works on his issues.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

A last bastion of privacy, our brains have remained inviolate, even as sensors now record our heartbeats, breaths, steps and sleep.

From Scientific American • Mar. 27, 2023

If she was not an immaculate dove in those days, she was still inviolate; a passionate creature whose very defenselessness had made her defense, against which his honor forbade him to prevail.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries.

From "1984" by George Orwell