impassable
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To reach the nearest city, Sadvakasova must drive two hours along a neglected road that becomes almost impassable in rain or snow.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Marcella Anglada, 61, pulled out her phone and showed Pratt a video of nearby broken sidewalks that she said were impassable in her motorized wheelchair.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Also check the weather; most roads in the monument are dirt or gravel and can become impassable in rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
“The longer the strait is impassable, the tighter commodity supply will become, thus the higher prices will likely go, and the greater the inflationary impulse that will follow,” the senior research strategist says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing impassable
The Alchemist
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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