as in unavailable
hard or impossible to get to or get at
that information is unobtainable as long as my computer is down
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Recent Examples of unobtainable
However, ambiguities in the law and the complexities of implementing a program made that date unobtainable.
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Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Technological advances since the mid-1970s, including acoustic and satellite telemetry, inexpensive underwater cameras, and aerial and underwater drones, have given us insights into the biology, ecology, and behavior of sharks that were previously unobtainable.
—Hans Walters, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
Donizetti’s popular 1832 comedy is the story of a poor Italian villager named Nemorino who’s in love with the beautiful but unobtainable woman named Adina.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
But during photography’s earlier periods, when cameras looked like boxes and accordions, the process of making pictures was much more involved than a single touch to a screen—and often relatively unobtainable for average people.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
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Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Technological advances since the mid-1970s, including acoustic and satellite telemetry, inexpensive underwater cameras, and aerial and underwater drones, have given us insights into the biology, ecology, and behavior of sharks that were previously unobtainable.
—Hans Walters, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
Donizetti’s popular 1832 comedy is the story of a poor Italian villager named Nemorino who’s in love with the beautiful but unobtainable woman named Adina.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
But during photography’s earlier periods, when cameras looked like boxes and accordions, the process of making pictures was much more involved than a single touch to a screen—and often relatively unobtainable for average people.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unobtainable
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Yet, for a host of reasons—including postwar Soviet memory politics, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the marginalization of Yiddish and Soviet Jewish literature—narratives of this experience remain largely unavailable to Western readers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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Even with essentially his entire starting lineup unavailable because of injuries, Lakers coach JJ Redick still looked forward to competing against a worthy opponent in the San Antonio Spurs.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The film went out of circulation after a single television screening and has been largely inaccessible for nearly four decades.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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But digital forensics experts kept working to find images in back-end software that might have been lost, corrupted or inaccessible.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Unobtainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobtainable. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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