To impeach a public official is to bring formal charges against him or her. It is not, as many people suppose, to remove the charged official from office. Impeachment must be followed by a formal trial and conviction to achieve that result.
A source you would never think of accusing of any wrongdoing is “unimpeachable.”
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On the podcast this week, we begin a series of discussions on the word romantic.
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