How to Use ineradicable in a Sentence
ineradicable
adjective- She made an ineradicable impression on us.
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Yet the legend of Burden the outlaw hero, willing to go all in on his performances, has proved ineradicable.
— Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023 -
Stutz thinks of Part X as an ineradicable evil that is always threatening to nullify our being.
— Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023 -
Things were pretty freewheeling before then, and early photos of earthquake damage — well before 1933 — gave us one of the most ineradicable myths of quake safety.
— Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021 -
Why is the confirmation bias, in particular— this is the most damaging one of all—why is the confirmation bias so ineradicable?
— Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2011 -
The ineradicable ache of a mother’s loss comes through with devastating force, and so, too, does playwright Inda Craig-Galván’s anger at the conditions that allow such losses to keep happening.
— BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2022 -
Still, many boundaries between the animal and the human, the natural and the artificial, were ineradicable.
— Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021 -
The infected, who slowly hybridize with the parasites to become more impervious, may well be ineradicable as a species.
— Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2023 -
Although coyotes have been amply demonstrated to be ineradicable, one councilman, Steve Madison, spoke passionately about the need to protect the city’s cats and dogs from their attacks.
— Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023 -
Israel regards the war as existential — the best way to restore its reputation in the region as ineradicable and as a beacon of security for Jews worldwide.
— Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024 -
Scenes from the work lingered in my mind as two ineradicable national crimes unfolded: the separation of children from their parents at the American border and the destruction of sacred Native sites by border-wall construction.
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020 -
Meanwhile, terrorism is an ineradicable risk that may increase as technology permits smaller numbers of people to effect greater harms.
— Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 2 May 2017 -
That, too, was an ineradicable feature of the world, and Obama’s Administration acted accordingly.
— Stephen Wertheim, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020 -
Certainly the needs satisfied by horror fiction are recurrent and ineradicable.
— New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017 -
The tendency of both sides to exaggerate our challenges into calamities may point, instead, to a deep-seated, possibly ineradicable craving among overly coddled postmodern men and women for an experience of intense danger.
— Damon Linker, TheWeek, 23 Mar. 2020 -
The honest, informed prohibitionist acknowledges that his preferred policy is inseparable from ineradicable black markets in narcotics, which have fueled street violence throughout the War on Drugs.
— Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 21 June 2017 -
Many ineradicable infections are controlled by vaccination and treatment.
— Monica Gandhi, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021 -
This distrust is understandable, to a degree: Fantasy can be engineered with as much fidelity as reality; the dissemination of misinformation is ineradicable.
— Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022 -
As with tattoos, images that seem to be decoratively superficial are personal, political and ineradicable.
— Holland Cotter, Roberta Smith and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
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