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untouchable

[uhn-tuhch-uh-buhl] / ʌnˈtʌtʃ ə bəl /
ADJECTIVE
taboo
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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

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

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

She was just a woman who said my name correctly, listened to a story I was afraid would make me untouchable and stayed curious.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

"The other thing is that he does feel untouchable," he told AFP.

From Barron's Apr. 25, 2026

There was something frigidly beautiful about him, something untouched and untouchable.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

From Salon Jun. 10, 2026

"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

National security advisers, who form a chain of foreign policy expertise from administration to administration, are mostly untouchables, too.

From Washington Post May 24, 2022

The girl's parents are Dalits - formerly untouchables - who make a living by begging outside a Sufi Muslim shrine located just across from the cremation ground in Delhi's Nangal area.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2021

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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