impossibility

Example Sentences

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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

Having just passed the first anniversary of one of my life’s most excruciating moments, I’ve been feeling the impossibility in that balancing act myself lately.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

It was in the impossibility of replacing what had died.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

You'd say forget about that, that's an impossibility, but that's what he's done.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

An eccentric, which involved a perfect circle around an unmarked point in featureless space, seemed to him an impossibility.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton