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impossibility

[im-pos-uh-bil-i-tee, im-pos-] / ɪmˌpɒs əˈbɪl ɪ ti, ˌɪm pɒs- /


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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

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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