impossibility

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Mangione’s reasons succinctly reflect a society where consistently reliable healthcare is a virtual impossibility without millions of dollars at your disposal.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

Another U.S.-backed peace effort in 1993 broke down, owing to opposition from Syria, which then dominated Lebanon, and the impossibility of security guarantees with Hezbollah.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

For the Kim family, whose parents are immigrants to the United States, han is exacerbated by the pressure to assimilate alongside the impossibility of ever doing so.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

That is a physical impossibility, given the shortage of nearly half a million factory workers in the U.S.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

Given the near impossibility of surpassing the glaciers without the corridor, some archaeologists suggested that the first Americans must have arrived twenty thousand years ago, when the ice pack was smaller.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann