as in unchangeable
not capable of changing or being changed
an invariable interest rate
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Recent Examples of invariable
Step 12: Pay attention to the progression—the invariable, inexorable progression.
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Barbara Kellerman, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
The almost invariable promises to improve security after records are stolen contradicts the endless assurances that these companies and institutions take security seriously.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
The invariable conditions included access to as much food as desired, a steady temperature and protection from predators.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2023
To read it is to move through the darkened interior of the author’s mind with your hands out, feeling for objects, listening for Beethoven’s Bagatelles, inviting haunting, all to make some sense of the invariable fact that lives are bounded but the mind is limitless.
—Leslie Pariseau, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
Unlike some of the other invariable signifiers of sexiness, a person’s middle is wrapped up, if it’s wrapped up at all, in control.
—New York Times, 11 May 2022
Unlike the church, Einstein wasn’t initially happy with the idea of a changing universe, preferring one invariable on large scales.
—Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
This is bound to become a universal, or perhaps invariable, artistic technique that will become part of the common language of music, transcending time and borders.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2023
Please enjoy, reflect on the invariable strangeness of this great planet Earth, and come back for more in the upcoming year.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2016
Barbara Kellerman, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
The almost invariable promises to improve security after records are stolen contradicts the endless assurances that these companies and institutions take security seriously.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
The invariable conditions included access to as much food as desired, a steady temperature and protection from predators.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2023
To read it is to move through the darkened interior of the author’s mind with your hands out, feeling for objects, listening for Beethoven’s Bagatelles, inviting haunting, all to make some sense of the invariable fact that lives are bounded but the mind is limitless.
—Leslie Pariseau, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
Unlike some of the other invariable signifiers of sexiness, a person’s middle is wrapped up, if it’s wrapped up at all, in control.
—New York Times, 11 May 2022
Unlike the church, Einstein wasn’t initially happy with the idea of a changing universe, preferring one invariable on large scales.
—Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
This is bound to become a universal, or perhaps invariable, artistic technique that will become part of the common language of music, transcending time and borders.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2023
Please enjoy, reflect on the invariable strangeness of this great planet Earth, and come back for more in the upcoming year.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invariable
Adjective
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This policy change follows a recent executive order mandating federal recognition of only two sexes, male and female, as unchangeable.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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Our rejection of displacement is firm and unchangeable.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The members of the ERA Coalition believe the national archivist, a political appointee with no fixed term, has the authority to publish the ERA because there is no ratification deadline in the Constitution — an interpretation also supported by the 400,000-member American Bar Association.—
Amanda Becker,
Them,
17 Jan. 2025
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Yet unlike a novel, a D&D campaign had no fixed ending; in fact, the game’s uncanny way of resisting all attempts to end it, like Scheherazade delaying her execution with yet another tale, was both a selling point and a real source of anxiety.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Procedurals benefit from an unchanging lead character who tackles a new challenge in each episode.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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Similarly, we’re told that this island has been struggling with modernity, experiencing an existential crisis because its age-old traditions and seemingly unchanging ways are being encroached upon by technology and outsiders.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Invariable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invariable. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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