How to Use ineradicable in a Sentence

ineradicable

adjective
  • She made an ineradicable impression on us.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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