indestructibility
Americannoun
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Earlier this month, Norris played up his apparent indestructibility by throwing punches in an Instagram posting celebrating his 86th birthday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Exposure to some PFAs — deemed “forever chemicals” because of their indestructibility — has been tied to kidney cancer, increases in cholesterol, liver dysfunction and preeclampsia, a serious pregnancy complication, according to the CDC.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024
Together, they tell a harrowing story of profound psycho-cultural trauma, in which the once-ubiquitous assumption of our collective indestructibility has been undermined and replaced by the now-widespread belief that we stand inches from the precipice.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023
Angela Bassett convinced you that if you were seeing if not Tina Turner, then Turner’s indestructibility; and Marion Cotillard, the brittle incandescence of Edith Piaf.
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2019
Herrero recounts an incident that nicely conveys the near indestructibility of the grizzly.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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