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  • adjective That cannot be slaked

Etymologies

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un- +‎ slakeable

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Examples

  • The juggernaut that is the Chinese economy, supplier of the world's unslakeable lust for low priced consumer do-dads stops right here, right now, beginning with me.

    Suzanne Langlois: 888 My private War with Hu Jintao 2008

  • After almost a decade of drought, more water is on the move than at any time since the big floods of 1974 and 1976, enough to quench the unslakeable thirst of irrigators and still keep flowing south to join the Darling River; enough to offer hope that the dying lakes,

    The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines 2010

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