as in sacred
not to be violated, criticized, or tampered with
a person with inviolable moral standards an inviolable trust between lawyer and client
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Recent Examples of inviolable
Trump’s prosecution by social media, and Bondi’s eager compliance, cross yet another line once thought inviolable.
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
Summer is usually the time of long days and longer vacations, but summer 2025 was a season where the business world’s inviolable godhead, the chief executive officer, looked less and less like a position worth exalting.
—Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The debate is shifting to how much of Russia's battlefield victories will be accepted, rather than over rights and the inviolable nature of international borders.
—Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The 2022 Dobbs decision changed his calculus, though, as a federal right seen as inviolable was taken away.
—Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2025
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
Summer is usually the time of long days and longer vacations, but summer 2025 was a season where the business world’s inviolable godhead, the chief executive officer, looked less and less like a position worth exalting.
—Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The debate is shifting to how much of Russia's battlefield victories will be accepted, rather than over rights and the inviolable nature of international borders.
—Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The 2022 Dobbs decision changed his calculus, though, as a federal right seen as inviolable was taken away.
—Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inviolable
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In a town in northern Peru, a teenager addicted to video games begins to desecrate the sacred ruins of his ancestors in search of money to continue playing.—
Roberto Prieto,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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This is all, of course, a provocation, a way of merging the sacred and profane, and asking which is which.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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His new film Fatherland, like Cold War and Ida, is shot in a lustrous monochrome that turns shadows into punctuation marks and sunbeams into something holy, and that makes its performers, chief among them an incredible Sandra Hüller, look lit from within.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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Jews revere the site as the Temple Mount, where the biblical temples once stood and the holiest site in Judaism.—
Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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“Inviolable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inviolable. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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