as in unavailable
hard or impossible to get to or get at
that information is unobtainable as long as my computer is down
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That will require the Russians to accept a defeat but also require the Ukrainians to accept that complete victory may be unobtainable.
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Vladislav Zubok, Foreign Affairs, 21 Dec. 2022
It was tested in 2013, but Hill ruled that technological advances for even smaller pieces of DNA may yield previously unobtainable results.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
Mid-pandemic, this reference was nearly unobtainable.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 20 May 2024
Scott’s attorneys said the rapper’s phone fell to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and the records were unobtainable.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
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Vladislav Zubok, Foreign Affairs, 21 Dec. 2022
It was tested in 2013, but Hill ruled that technological advances for even smaller pieces of DNA may yield previously unobtainable results.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
Mid-pandemic, this reference was nearly unobtainable.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 20 May 2024
Scott’s attorneys said the rapper’s phone fell to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and the records were unobtainable.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Unobtainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobtainable. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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