impassable
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Since the war, the Strait of Hormuz, a busy waterway through which much of the world's oil is transported, has been largely impassable after blockades imposed by both Iran and the US.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
There are few naturally occurring barriers - no mountain ranges, no impassable river valleys.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 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
"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."
From Barron's • 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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