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
That the songs don’t match the story structurally is probably an insuperable problem.
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023
Two women who are attached to their cultural roots yet alienated by the conservative values of their communities hold for each other the answer to problems that until now have seemed insuperable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2023
That assured at least a halving of the match with Viktor Hovland — the halving did come — and pushed the United States to an insuperable 14½ points.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2021
South Africa’s Mediterranean climate would have been ideal for them, but the 2,000 miles of tropical conditions between Ethiopia and South Africa posed an insuperable barrier.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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