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
Since Ecuador’s landmark 2008 constitutional protection of nature, Bolivia, India, New Zealand, and other countries across the world have made natural entities legal persons, or otherwise given them inviolable rights.
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Brett Simpson,
The Atlantic,
26 Dec. 2025
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.
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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.
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Matthew Tostevin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for inviolable
Brett Simpson,
The Atlantic,
26 Dec. 2025
Trump’s prosecution by social media, and Bondi’s eager compliance, cross yet another line once thought inviolable.
—
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
See All Example Sentences for inviolable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inviolable
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His larger diagnosis is that the division machine has made every disagreement existential — and that once a political difference becomes sacred, people will rationalize almost anything to defeat the other side.
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But over time, and as reverence for the Revolutionary War generation grew, the political parties sought to prove themselves the truest guardians of the founding principles, transforming it from an argument for independence into a sacred document.
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There are flag sweaters and skate sneakers and prairie skirts; there are Cheyanne moccasins and Mennonite bonnets and the not-quite-holy Yankees baseball cap.
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The devil invades a Georgetown home, and holy men have quite the job to do on a demonic little girl.
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“Inviolable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inviolable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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