palimpsest

Example Sentences

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Mr. Chiasson sets about peeling back the layers on the palimpsest of Mr. Sanders’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Each new power painted over its predecessors’ propaganda posters and insignia, leaving the province’s buildings a palimpsest of the war’s winners and losers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

“They have this palimpsest of a billion years of history.”

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024

But the codex is a palimpsest: parchment that was scraped clean of older text by the scribe so that it could be reused.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2022

And then, deeper in the palimpsest, underneath the announcement signal and the primer, would be the real message.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan