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At Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, fee collectors and trail maintenance employees lost their jobs, which could make trails unpassable after heavy rains, Brengel told the news service.
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Gary Stoller, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Rodgers and others said locals were using pack mules to help rescue people as well as to deliver food, water and other essentials to residents in areas where roads remain unpassable.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
Human and drug traffickers, and a massive wave of humanity, have now beaten a path through the previously unpassable Darien Gap, which separates the two continents.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Mar. 2024
Southwest has canceled more than a dozen departing from Louisville after Arctic blast that rendered routes unpassable last week.
—Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022
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Gary Stoller, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Rodgers and others said locals were using pack mules to help rescue people as well as to deliver food, water and other essentials to residents in areas where roads remain unpassable.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
Human and drug traffickers, and a massive wave of humanity, have now beaten a path through the previously unpassable Darien Gap, which separates the two continents.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Mar. 2024
Southwest has canceled more than a dozen departing from Louisville after Arctic blast that rendered routes unpassable last week.
—Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpassable
impassable
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The war in Iran has whipsawed oil markets as the Strait of Hormuz has remained largely impassible.—
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2026
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The Strait of Hormuz has been all but impassable since the opening salvos of the war, which continued for a 12th day with missiles and drones fired from both sides.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Unpassable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpassable. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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