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impossible to extract, disentangle, or avoid; or hopelessly intricate- the inextricable tie between culture, religion, and politics
inextricable = impossible to disentangle
- an inextricable knot
- her inextricable fate
- Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world?Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I Have a Dream
- It is confused more than any other, as though in the now peaceful throes of a more recent, a more inextricable, compositeness.William Faulkner -- Light in August
- But the grenade was inextricably lodged in the typewriter, and the typewriter held tight to Orfeo.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- He felt the good and bad within himself inextricably mingled and overlapping.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- Somehow, the game had become inextricably linked in Harry's mind with success or failure in his plans for Ginny.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Their lives would somehow be inextricably attached to all the girls who had been killed.Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
- Time is the element of narration, just as it is the element of life—is inextricably bound up with it, as bodies are in space.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- In this case I believe one may be inextricably connected to the others.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- The people who evaluated football players and football strategies understood that the parts were inextricable from the whole, of course.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- With some Angelenos, those two emotions were as inextricably entwined as the viscera of inoperable Siamese twins.Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
- Life seemed an inextricable confusion.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- Her powers are inextricably linked to it; her magic brought it to towering life, its life force keeps her strong.Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
- I would hate to believe they are inextricably linked.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- He was mired to his neck, inextricably, in complication.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- Her child came between us, a symbol of both what divided us and what had brought us inextricably together.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- It was now a thing of mingled bereavement and anxiety, inextricable and bewilderingly intense.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
inextricably = impossible to disentangle (separate)
inextricably = in a manner that is impossible to disentangle (to separate)
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