as in ancient
dating or surviving from the distant past
the immemorial Alps, where once Hannibal's army marched
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Recent Examples of immemorial
Also absent is the storyteller who tells the hobbits about all the change he’s seen outside Sauron’s influence — all the war, all the loss, and all the regrowth, cyclical stories that reflect his own immemorial age.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
This is when the body remembers conjugating humanity as an immemorial practice.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Kevin’s defense of his home was a defense of the memory of his family, and of their immemorial traditions menaced by the ruthless — and rootless — home invaders.
—Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
Like the schist outcroppings that rear up a couple of blocks away in Central Park, Gang’s mixture of urban attitude and immemorial forms reminds us that even a megalopolis like ours is just a collection of boxes clinging to a very old boulder.
—Curbed, 25 Apr. 2023
Gian Lorenzo’s father, Pietro (1562–1629), was a Florentine sculptor trained in the immemorial Tuscan tradition that put drawing, disegno, at the heart of every artistic endeavor, even the art of living, for disegno could mean a strategy as well as a sketch.
—Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
Symbolism: royalty, enlightenment, spirituality, and immemorial.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 21 Jan. 2023
And 2 platoons formed escort to prisoners of war passing through the immemorial shade of the staffroom after the successful action at RAFA.
—Ishion Hutchinson, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
Aside from the immemorial wonders, Shiraz provided other, less monumental features.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
This is when the body remembers conjugating humanity as an immemorial practice.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Kevin’s defense of his home was a defense of the memory of his family, and of their immemorial traditions menaced by the ruthless — and rootless — home invaders.
—Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
Like the schist outcroppings that rear up a couple of blocks away in Central Park, Gang’s mixture of urban attitude and immemorial forms reminds us that even a megalopolis like ours is just a collection of boxes clinging to a very old boulder.
—Curbed, 25 Apr. 2023
Gian Lorenzo’s father, Pietro (1562–1629), was a Florentine sculptor trained in the immemorial Tuscan tradition that put drawing, disegno, at the heart of every artistic endeavor, even the art of living, for disegno could mean a strategy as well as a sketch.
—Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
Symbolism: royalty, enlightenment, spirituality, and immemorial.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 21 Jan. 2023
And 2 platoons formed escort to prisoners of war passing through the immemorial shade of the staffroom after the successful action at RAFA.
—Ishion Hutchinson, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
Aside from the immemorial wonders, Shiraz provided other, less monumental features.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immemorial
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Last year, an ancient, still-active volcano was found off the Canadian coast, covered in millions of giant eggs laid by Pacific white skates (a hauntingly beautiful cartilaginous fish that looks like a stingray).Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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The area buzzes with shops, restaurants, and landmarks such as the Mayan Museum of Cancun, with exhibitions showcasing ancient Mayan history and art and the adjacent San Miguelito Archeological Site of Mayan ruins.Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2024
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The first was at my hotel, the Four Seasons Hong Kong, renovated during the pandemic to retain its status as a venerable local institution.Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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The thrilling fight sequences featuring some of the most venerable action stars in the biz?EW Staff, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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The other new study, in Nature, relied on an analysis of six genomes from remains discovered in Ranis, a cave site in present-day Germany that sits below a medieval castle.Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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The beautiful city of Maastricht in the Netherlands is always a delight to visit for its medieval architecture and its vibrant cultural scene, which includes FashionClash, an annual festival every November that’s a brilliant mashup of fashion, art, film and performance.Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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