as in impossible
incapable of being solved or accomplished
an apparently unsolvable problem
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Recent Examples of unsolvable
Those issues are the city’s seemingly unsolvable budget crisis, trash pickup fees, paid parking in Balboa Park and allowing large ADU developments in neighborhoods of single-family homes.
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 June 2026
Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.
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IEEE Spectrum,
4 May 2026
Such has been the unsolvable — and largely unwinnable — issue with looking back at the King of Pop’s life.
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Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
The splitter, which generated a 50 percent whiff rate Tuesday, is practically unsolvable.
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Katie Woo,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 June 2026
Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.
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IEEE Spectrum,
4 May 2026
Such has been the unsolvable — and largely unwinnable — issue with looking back at the King of Pop’s life.
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Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
The splitter, which generated a 50 percent whiff rate Tuesday, is practically unsolvable.
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Katie Woo,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsolvable
Adjective
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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.
Adjective
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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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