impossibility
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Yet the social-media scrutiny, the parasocial fans and the impossibility of meeting everyone’s hopes for you — they can curdle your spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
A universal standard for immorality in art may be an impossibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But beyond the material hardships, many describe a similar feeling: the impossibility of unplugging from their problems.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
They seemed to realize the impossibility of touching tar without being defiled.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
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When it comes to Ronaldo, his compatriots have learned that, as he usually says, "there are no impossibilities".
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
The Los Angeles Times investigation concluded that he did not, based on interviews with more than a dozen former Frito-Lay employees, company records and some glaring inconsistencies — nay, impossibilities — in his story.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
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
But given the scene’s importance and its onstage impossibilities, why adapt it for theater at all?
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
The physical impossibilities in no way injured faith.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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