insuperable

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Here and elsewhere, scale is a messaging device, speaking of the Roman imperium’s insuperable need to seize and control large swaths of space.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

Zelensky’s visit is a reminder that democracy is worth fighting for and that bravery in the face of what seemed to be insuperable odds can achieve what was once regarded as impossible.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2022

This is an insuperable problem, and I spent the entire series trying to understand how things went so wrong.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

If the left’s challenges appear daunting, they are perhaps not yet insuperable.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

Galen’s extraordinary logorrhoea—his surviving works amount to 3 million words, and represent perhaps a third of what he wrote—is the consequence of his obsessive and futile effort to overcome this insuperable obstacle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton