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as in insurmountable
incapable of being defeated, overcome, or subdued
the building project ran into insuperable financial difficulties and had to be scrapped
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as in impossible
incapable of being solved or accomplished
insuperable problems have arisen which make it very unlikely that we will ever finish this project
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Recent Examples of insuperable
Orban succeeded in this enterprise to what seemed like an insuperable level.
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Melik Kaylan,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Raise the stakes, place insuperable obstacles before the protagonist, have the protagonist somehow surmount them while becoming braver and better.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
Television’s tendency to play down to the masses — manipulating our individual needs for attention, for agreement, or simply to win — is an insuperable problem at this particular, shameless moment in pop culture.
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Armond White,
National Review,
16 Oct. 2024
This attitude, although understandable, creates an insuperable barrier to creating a better policy.
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Alan S. Blinder,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Dec. 2018
See All Example Sentences for insuperable
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Raise the stakes, place insuperable obstacles before the protagonist, have the protagonist somehow surmount them while becoming braver and better.
—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
Television’s tendency to play down to the masses — manipulating our individual needs for attention, for agreement, or simply to win — is an insuperable problem at this particular, shameless moment in pop culture.
—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Oct. 2024
This attitude, although understandable, creates an insuperable barrier to creating a better policy.
—
Alan S. Blinder,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Dec. 2018
See All Example Sentences for insuperable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insuperable
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Meanwhile, the technological and financial hurdles of fighting the sonic boom appeared insurmountable.
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Both attacks seem to be finding a groove, as just one goal in the second half could feel like an insurmountable advantage in this type of match.
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The ombudsmen point to impossible care burdens that cause burnout, irregular schedules, lack of training and the difficulty of taking care of seniors who, in previous decades, would have qualified for hospital care.
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Shrouded completely in a thick, poisonous cloud cover, its surface is obviously impossible to observe.
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The Spurs led for more minutes than the Knicks and built seemingly unconquerable leads.
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Ryan Borucki relieved him, the White Sox scored twice more, and the Giants faced an unconquerable deficit as baseball’s lowest-scoring team.
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The 41-year-old Portuguese footballer managed to put two past a hopeless Uzbekistan, becoming the first player to score in six consecutive World Cups.
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The conflict feels contemporary without growing too cynical, and the core relationship stakes seem real without skewing hopeless.
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Time and time again in the history of technology, monopolistic industry leaders that long seemed invincible—from Xerox to IBM to AT&T—have proven vulnerable to agile upstarts and technology advances that broke markets wide open by lowering costs, expanding supply and leapfrogging capabilities.
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Legally an adult but still a teenager and finding your footing in the world, vacillating between feeling invincible and feeling minuscule.
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Alexander the Great conquered it in 332 BCE after building a causeway to what had been considered an impregnable island fortress.
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On that occasion a team made up of players who had all been born in Haiti shocked an Italy team famed for its impregnable defense.
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For the entire month of June, one team has run roughshod over Major League Baseball, being nearly unbeatable at home and surging in the playoff standings in the process.
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That means that the nearly unbeatable Femi could be shafted out of the King of the Ring finals, perhaps by Lesnar himself.
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Recent conflicts have demonstrated that no main battle tank is invulnerable.
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In the context of law enforcement, is the perception of Black women as inherently aggressive, threatening, and invulnerable to pain.
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“Insuperable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insuperable. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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