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Example Sentences

Just one of the base’s 30m-deep command silos remains intact, preserved much as it was when it was completed in 1979.

From BBC

Keys and the Clarks hope their project will play a small part in keeping the neighborhood intact.

Over the course of 24 hours, the challenges of keeping such a disparate class intact had become painfully clear.

Thanks to the courts, the Wisconsin gerrymander remained intact.

From Salon

Noonan and Karen Sillas star as office colleagues whose first date, an awkward dinner at her apartment, is played out in real time, with uncomfortable pauses and strange conversational detours intact.

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What are other ways to say intact?

The adjective intact implies retaining completeness and original condition: a package delivered intact. Perfect emphasizes not only completeness but also high quality and absence of defects or blemishes: a perfect diamond. Complete implies that a certain unit has all its parts or is fully developed or perfected, and may apply to a process or purpose carried to fulfillment: a complete explanation. Entire means whole, having unbroken unity: an entire book. 

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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