insurmountable
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L.A.’s Latino vote helped her leap from 2.5 percentage points behind the billionaire developer to an insurmountable double-digit lead.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
This was the closest thing that college basketball had to an insurmountable margin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
But she said the challenge was not insurmountable.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
A double in the sixth edged GB in front again, but the concession of three in the following end gave the Americans a lead that looked insurmountable until Morrison's late intervention gave them a lifeline.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
Which isn’t insurmountable, aka “impossible to overcome,” a vocab word we learned in Mr. Bonner’s class this week.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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