How to Use irresolvable in a Sentence

irresolvable

adjective
  • In the end, the irresolvable dilemma is North Korea’s, not the West’s.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Their movement was spawned not by Instagram but by the irresolvable clash of rising rents and flat wages.
    Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
  • At the heart of the Cold War was an irresolvable superpower disagreement over what to do with Germany.
    Timothy Naftali, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Serling was staking out his terrain: the inner human landscape of guilt and fear and irresolvable conflict.
    Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The images vibrate, not only with color and shape, but with the irresolvable nature of their impossible spaces.
    Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • There is an irresolvable tension between the practice of predicting human behavior and the belief in free will as part of our everyday life.
    Carissa Véliz, Wired, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Some problems may be irresolvable, but there are also relationships that don’t need to be lost forever.
    Joshua Coleman, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2021
  • As a result, the American narrative is morally irresolvable, always has been and always will be.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • That veil was often a source of frustration, leading to domestic doubts and irresolvable courtroom conflicts.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • AuCoin’s nine terms in Congress were more innocent times, but the country’s irresolvable problems predate its 45th president.
    oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Relating the pandemic to democratic values, Merkel modeled how free societies might approach an era of interlinked and irresolvable global crises.
    Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2020
  • It’s left us with certain irresolvable problems around affordability, speed, supply, sustainability, design — things that all of us value as human beings.
    Amy Eskind, PEOPLE.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • At some level, this double standard reflects a difficult and possibly irresolvable paradox of campaign coverage.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 22 May 2018
  • Catlos observed that engaging in this type of historical research is his way of testing common assertions that there is a fundamental and irresolvable conflict between Christian and Muslim, or Jewish and Muslim, cultures.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2010
  • These poems don’t offer a solution but do further clarify a tragically irresolvable difficulty.
    Jill McDonough, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
  • This appearance of irresolvable conflict was neither wholly accurate nor accidental.
    David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017
  • But scrutinizing Green’s story from a medical perspective reveals an irresolvable conflict between the accounts that have been widely disseminated and the realities of medicine and toxicologic possibility.
    Jeremy Samuel Faust, Slate Magazine, 28 June 2017
  • And along with these insights, these works instantiate an irresolvable tension between Thoreau’s quasi-sociological worldview and his transcendentalist preoccupation with the individual.
    R.h. Lossin, The New York Review of Books, 4 Sep. 2020

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