insurmountable
adjective
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Examples of insurmountable in a Sentence
Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2024
His absence has left a void in my life that feels insurmountable at the moment.
—Variety, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
This gripping tale unfolds the story of a rugby team's fight for survival against insurmountable odds after their plane crashes into the mountains.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
By the end of the weekend, a maximum of four points will separate the teams: a meaningful gap, no doubt, but not an insurmountable lead.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
But the result is undercooked, and even the open world feels constraining, frequently carved up into narrow pathways surrounded by insurmountable terrain, leaving players to bounce back and forth between menus squinting at the map to recall just where in the hell they’re supposed to be going.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
Here's how the vote could shape 2024 elections The number of delegates and states up for grabs on Super Tuesday has the potential to confer what's likely to be an insurmountable edge.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
Major cities across the globe are dealing with seemingly insurmountable housing crises, added to other cost-of-living pressures stoked by generationally high inflation.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 25 Mar. 2024
Instead, the novels explored the danger of connection, of the way a thought, once shared, can expand into an unstoppable force—a radical, terrifying ideology or a shrewd solution to a seemingly insurmountable crisis.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
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1690, in the meaning defined above
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“Insurmountable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insurmountable. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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