impracticality
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Still, for all its impracticality, his own sturgeon pepperpot—requiring four pounds of sturgeon heads and a pound of sturgeon fillet or steak—evokes Gilded Age extravagance and makes a certain kind of historic Philadelphia statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"I assure you Reform UK has absolutely no plans to loosen gun laws. My previous comments referred to the impracticality of laws affecting competitive sports," it read.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
These structures from quantum impracticality, inherent crystalline metronomes might migrate into our future time-keeping technology.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 4, 2023
The attempts to build them according to a perfectly calibrated blend of aspiration and inoffensive taste mask their deeper ambitions to be whole factories for living, ones that eliminate impracticality and inefficiency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
The subsequent failure of the American Colonization Society and the combination of logistical and economic difficulties in the colony of Liberia exposed the impracticality of any mass migration back to Africa.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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