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untouchable

[uhn-tuhch-uh-buhl] / ʌnˈtʌtʃ ə bəl /
ADJECTIVE
taboo
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They gave him a comically huge glove—and it appears to have transformed Sasaki into the untouchable flamethrower he was always supposed to be.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

For nearly 70 years, Just Fontaine’s tally of 13 goals at the 1958 World Cup was considered untouchable.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

To make matters worse, some 90% of government spending goes to sectors considered untouchable, like the military or pensions, says Paul Dmitriev, an emerging markets portfolio manager at Global X ETFs.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

"What makes him different is that people in Bosnia have never experienced him as distant or untouchable."

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

I peer out through the glass of the train window, which is streaked with rain and dust, and there is the landscape of my early childhood, smudged and scentless and untouchable and moving backward.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

“There shouldn’t be some sort of untouchables list of people who are immune from enforcement.”

From Salon Jun. 10, 2026

By the end of the regular season he had moved from luxury to necessity, ballooning into the conversation as one of the Lakers Big Three untouchables.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2025

"Many in parliament think of themselves as untouchables, who think the ordinary rules do not apply to them," said Michiel van Hulten, director of the Brussels office of Transparency International.

From Reuters Dec. 20, 2022

The phrase "they have never let me down" will come back to haunt England and remember, as good as he has been for England, one of his untouchables Harry Kane did.

From BBC Dec. 13, 2022

But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed with absolute certainty to extinction within a year or two.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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