unobtainable
Example Sentences
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A monument doesn’t change the fact that access to the beach still feels unobtainable to many inland communities of color.
From Los Angeles Times
The supermajorities required to propose and ratify constitutional amendments — two-thirds in both houses of Congress plus three-fourths of the states — are now unobtainable.
From Washington Post
The nation has been on a decade-long bourbon binge, making the rarest bottles increasingly unobtainable.
From Washington Post
There should be no shame in having one's dreams dashed in an economic system that makes even modest hopes for a better life unobtainable so that a handful can live out their wildest fantasies.
From Salon
Rarely has the answer to a major national problem been so obvious, yet so politically unobtainable.
From Washington Post
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