impassable
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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
Thomas Conway, who is a farmer in Park, County Londonderry, said many roads near him are "impassable".
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
The recent storms have also closed roads throughout the park, covering paved roads in debris and making them impassable, according to a National Park Service news release.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
Recall that Siberia has always been cold, and that a continuous ice sheet stretched as an impassable barrier across the whole width of Canada during much of the Pleistocene Ice Ages.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The Alchemist
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