unobtainable
Example Sentences
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"I mean, come on, it's like an unobtainable dream."
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Economic growth is the reason extreme poverty has become much rarer around the world, life expectancy has increased dramatically, and most Americans now own many things that were unobtainable luxuries decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
It was tested in 2013, but Hill ruled that technological advances for even smaller pieces of DNA may yield previously unobtainable results.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
But even for white Americans who supposedly are expected to be insulated from such issues, the American dream is still unobtainable.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2024
Iron was even more precious, but it was unobtainable.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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