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
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
If the left’s challenges appear daunting, they are perhaps not yet insuperable.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021
Such temporal shifts suggest that Mundy’s heroes actually exist and that, despite seemingly insuperable odds, they will still be alive when the book ends.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2020
The difficulties of execution were not insuperable; but I feared that there should be no vigor in my rendering when my senses were clogged with terror at crowds and a crippling imagination of imminent failure.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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