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

It was in the impossibility of replacing what had died.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

His father Joel told BBC Sport last year that Louis finds the impossibility of satisfying all the requests for selfies and autographs he gets a difficult part of the job.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

For the Kim family, whose parents are immigrants to the United States, han is exacerbated by the pressure to assimilate alongside the impossibility of ever doing so.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

It seemed like I was now thinking of Zach forty minutes out of every hour, Zach, who was an impossibility.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd