unattainable
Example Sentences
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Two years into his government, and growing increasingly frustrated with what he said were the central bank’s unattainable inflation targets, he abruptly reset inflation targets during a press conference in December 2017.
"It's frankly astonishing that airlines think they can ignore the rules and mislead customers with unattainable prices, so it's absolutely right that the ASA has made this ruling," he said.
From BBC
Companies have to thread a fine needle to get moonshot awards right—setting targets that aren’t too easy, but also aren’t so hard that the awards are unattainable and lose all incentive value.
Her sister once wrote that her “aim was high, the ideal unattainable . . . too high to attain to the fruition of the soul and be satisfied.”
Proponents of AI regulation often cite neutral AI as a goal, but true neutrality is often unattainable.
From Salon
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