inextinguishable
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of inextinguishable
First recorded in 1500–10; in- 3 + extinguishable ( def. )
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The 35-year-old volunteer firefighter has spent more than a month enveloped in this haze, breathing toxic millennia-old microparticles of carbon as he toils against a seemingly inextinguishable fire front.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Being at home is a ritual, as religious, in its way, as remembering the Maccabees’ inextinguishable lamp or the exodus from Egypt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
The images of daily life amid destruction and rubble — children, bicyclists, workers, laundry drying from high floors in a half-destroyed building — hint at an inextinguishable flame carrying on through a campaign of death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
"We will always counter blind hatred with the inextinguishable thirst to teach. The thirst to learn. The thirst to live freely".
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2023
In all sports, they lacked his inextinguishable fierceness, his hunger for games.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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