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inextricable adjective [ ɪnˈɛkstrɪkəb(ə)l ]

• impossible to disentangle or separate.
• "the past and the present are inextricable"
Similar: inseparable, impossible to separate, indivisible, entangled, tangled, ravelled, mixed up, confused,
Origin: mid 16th century: from Latin inextricabilis, from in- ‘not’ + extricare ‘unravel’ (see extricate).

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