interminable
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He criticized the wars of his predecessors not because they were interminable but because they were unprofitable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
It was an example of what’s become an interminable debate about what should be required of homeowners in L.A.’s fire-prone areas to limit the destruction of future conflagrations.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025
Judge Parnell said the social worker's view was that the litigation was putting the children under "interminable pressure" and should end.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025
For Katy Fry, a 33-year-old software engineer from Nashville, the situation made an already-long layover feel interminable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
The interminable pages about light and stone and water, a narrative split between three different points of view, the hovering stillness of nothing much seeming to happen—none of this could conceal her cowardice.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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