How to Use unalterable in a Sentence

unalterable

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• By the evening of this fateful day, the great nations of Europe will be on an unalterable course toward world war.
  — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2020
• Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, the series opens with one unalterable fact: a teenage girl by the name of Hannah Baker has killed herself.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 2 Apr. 2017
• But there are ways get around this unalterable fact; happily, there is a black market for the right genetic stuff.
  — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
• In the context of climate change, the unalterable hard fact is that global emissions must reach their peak within the next two to three years and then swiftly reduce by half by 2030.
  — Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• But this is no longer Adams’ America, where facts were unalterable.
  — Lee McIntyre, The Conversation, 25 July 2019
• Still, the freedoms outweighed the challenges, and all of Green's requirements could be met without the distraction of an unalterable floor plan.
  — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 26 July 2019
• Who have that hunger for something permanent and unalterable?
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2012
• And all the things that seemed unalterable have been disrupted — including the holy celebration of Easter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
• Whenever someone buys an NFT, the purchase is recorded on a transparent and unalterable blockchain that lets everyone see who the current owner is.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 9 May 2022
• And in this case, one uncomfortable reality is that both wind and solar are dogged by a range of problems caused by intermittency, the unalterable fact that the wind doesn’t always blow, and the sun doesn’t always shine.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 8 Jan. 2022
• Empathy is not like a person’s adult height, something unalterable.
  — K.n.c., The Economist, 7 June 2019
• But if removal isn’t possible, Paul should employ the same strategy as anyone who risks being screened out due to unalterable circumstances.
  — Marie G. McIntyre, The Seattle Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• The real threat to Senate Democrats lies in the unalterable realities of human mortality.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2021
• Like slow food, progressive politics, and nontoxic cleaning supplies, the lost art of correspondence is an unalterable part of this aesthetic, and woe betide the airy Web site that fails to stock a Kaweco fountain pen.
  — Sadie Stein, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2017
• If no one has cornered you at a party to explain this to you yet, NFT stands for non-fungible token, which is an unalterable digital receipt that lives on a decentralized public transaction ledger called a blockchain.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
• That hopeful idea is the polar opposite of a natural, unalterable rate of unemployment.
  — Mike Konczal, Vox, 4 May 2018
• That means that creationists, anti-vaccine activists, GMO opponents, and hardcore climate change skeptics, to name just a few groups that have fixed, unalterable views, cannot be persuaded by reason, no matter how it's packaged.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2010
• Most journalistic forecasts about 2022 treat as an unalterable rule of physics the historical pattern that the president’s party loses House and (usually) Senate seats in off-year elections.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
• The one unalterable truth of the last six decades is that America cannot create a nation out of humanitarian gestures and upbeat, but duplicitous, pronouncements from Washington.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• And getting to the bottom of the complex psychological accounting that leads someone to make such an unalterable decision is nearly impossible.
  — William D. Cohan, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2016
• The federal government plays a vital role in domestic and global security, Trump is a dangerous and erratic figure, and somebody needs to try to steer him away from decisions that would provoke unalterable tragedy.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Aug. 2017
• But what really frustrates me isn’t the persistence of special pleading across shifts in partisan control — which is, as Burke pointed out, a predictable manifestation of unalterable human nature.
  — John Hood, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
• Some scientists insisted that the races had been created separately and remained unequal and unalterable.
  — Eric Foner, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2017
• This deeply worrying study documents how the costs of climate warming can be subtle and difficult to detect, whilst at the same time, its effects upon biodiversity are powerful and potentially unalterable.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• Cryptocurrency is a type of digital money secured via encryption in a publicly viewable and purportedly unalterable way.
  — David Hamilton, ajc, 15 Sep. 2022
• These candidates are running not just against a President and a party but against the tendency of proto-dictatorships and other abhorrent situations to be regarded, eventually, as acceptable or unalterable.
  — Jim Lardner, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2019
• Even without a pandemic, a 50-50 Senate is inherently subject to the unalterable realities of human mortality.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
• The perception remains unaltered, perhaps even unalterable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• The atom, previously believed indivisible, could be artificially disintegrated, and chemical elements, long thought unalterable, could be metamorphosed.
  — Keith Epstein, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014

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