inalterable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- inalterability noun
- inalterableness noun
- inalterably adverb
Etymology
Origin of inalterable
Example Sentences
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Decades later, and long after many of their congressional careers had ended, their support for Nixon would continue to linger over their legacies, an inalterable epitaph on their lives.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019
If the people you love can change their names, bodies, identities — if these things that seem inalterable can be altered or even erased — can anything be counted on?
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2019
Is Clara and the human race really going to die, negating all future inalterable "fixed points in time" that necessitate the human race live on?
From The Verge • Oct. 26, 2014
Indeed, I suspect most people still regard aging as an inalterable part of the human condition—a view reinforced by the fact that pharmaceutical companies just say no to anti-aging drug development.
From Scientific American • Dec. 20, 2011
“But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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