impassable
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Yoshitaka Isaji said the passage used in rescue efforts on Saturday was currently impassable because a drainage pump had broken, but repair efforts were ongoing.
From BBC • May 31, 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
Amazon plans 200 rural hubs covering 13,000 ZIP Codes across 1.2 million square miles, facing challenges like impassable roads.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 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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