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also impassible
as in close
impossible to get through or into
the road was impassable until snowplows cleared it
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Recent Examples of impassable
Severe winter weather left roads and sidewalks impassable for school buses and students.
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Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
With parts of some roads impassable in northwestern Pennsylvania, scores of travelers took refuge in the lobby and hallways of a Holiday Inn near I-90.
—CBS News, 1 Dec. 2024
Yet these stories, in which class divisions form impassable rifts and submission to the status quo comes at great psychic cost, have much to say about our contemporary reality.
—Camille Bromley, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
The warnings have also prompted multiple highway closures in the area, with the department warning that roads could become impassable and that there was water already on some roads.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
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Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
With parts of some roads impassable in northwestern Pennsylvania, scores of travelers took refuge in the lobby and hallways of a Holiday Inn near I-90.
—CBS News, 1 Dec. 2024
Yet these stories, in which class divisions form impassable rifts and submission to the status quo comes at great psychic cost, have much to say about our contemporary reality.
—Camille Bromley, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
The warnings have also prompted multiple highway closures in the area, with the department warning that roads could become impassable and that there was water already on some roads.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impassable
Adjective
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Archway provides a no-obligation offer within 24 hours, can pay cash and close within three days or on a future date of the seller’s choice, and there are no fees or commissions to pay.—
Archway Homes,
Kansas City Star,
23 Mar. 2025
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Since Sullivan’s arrest, there have been calls for a state-level investigation and a closer examination of its safety net for children, including homeschooling practices, around which there is little or no regulation, according to a 2018 Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate report.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But these concepts are not, on their own, impervious to challenge.—
Michael Peregrine,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
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Remember, Nathan isn’t strong, just impervious to pain.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Read more on the epa controversy Senior DOJ prosecutor quit after being told to investigate Biden climate spending As the government continues to spend time and taxpayer money on the investigation, the funding remains frozen.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2025
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There is war or frozen conflict that leads to military actions of various kinds.—
Simon Shuster/Kyiv,
TIME,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In this archetype, the leader is a stoic force—strong, steady, and impenetrable.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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His manifesto, dismissed in the 1990s as impenetrable, is now the subject of YouTube videos drawing millions of views apiece.—
Charles Homans,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This is a semipermeable membrane that conducts protons while being impermeable to hydrogen.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 Oct. 2010
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Much of the Floridan Aquifer is shielded significantly from downward migration of pollution by overlying layers of dense, impermeable clay.—
Kevin Spear,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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From Sandro Tonali to Dan Burn and Dubravka, this current side have been borderline impregnable over the past month.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria.—
Natasha Hall,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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In extremely dense fog where visibility is near zero, the best course of action is to first turn on your hazard lights, then simply pull into a safe location such as a parking lot of a local business, and stop.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Mar. 2025
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That hypothetical journey would have faced formidable obstacles including mountains, rivers and dense forests, and may have taken about eight months.—
Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Impassable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impassable. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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