impossibility
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Without equal citizenship, equal voting rights, and equal opportunity to elect representatives of one’s choice, republican government was an impossibility.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
It was in the impossibility of replacing what had died.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Not only are the Lakers facing an historical impossibility — you’ll remember that NBA teams leading three-games-to-none are 161-0 — but they’re already bearing the weight of an historical humiliation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
You'd say forget about that, that's an impossibility, but that's what he's done.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
With the nation’s economic depression growing ever more profound—banks failing, suicides multiplying—it seemed an impossibility.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
When it comes to Ronaldo, his compatriots have learned that, as he usually says, "there are no impossibilities".
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Each explores forgiveness and the wages of emotional damage, and incorporates those psychological trials into stories fueled in some way by an all-consuming desire to realize one of life's impossibilities: a do-over.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2022
“When people get confronted with impossibilities, they often change their memories to make it make sense,” she added.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2022
But given the scene’s importance and its onstage impossibilities, why adapt it for theater at all?
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
I considered the impossibilities he described, trying to take it in.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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