inalienable
adjective
not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied; not alienable.
inalienably
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a word derived from
inalienable.
Example Sentences
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“And when you were up on the rock, then every crystal, crack, and ripple was endowed with indissoluble, life-saving importance, each dike and chickenhead inalienably itself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
I share this because though Yang has alienated many members of the progressive Asian American community with his comments, I think his missteps are inalienably Asian American too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2019
Twiggy's plaintively torchy renditions of Nice Work If You Can Get It and Boy Wanted surpass any of Tune's singing, though the pair's shallow-pool splash-dance together in 'S Wonderful reconfirms Tune's inalienably inventive choreography.
From Time Magazine Archive
Postwar prosperity has done some damage to the barriers of class: "The extremes of English society are still inalienably English, but much in the middle is half American."
From Time Magazine Archive
If sovereignty rests inalienably with the people, the one valid polity is pure democracy.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
