impractical

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The neighbors weren’t unsympathetic, nor were they impractical.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Some are impractical, such as forcing teams to push the fences back in their ballparks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

In denying Acuña’s request for a tenured position, the judge argued that the hostility between Acuña and his potential co-workers would make his appointment “both impractical and inappropriate.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Standard computational techniques that attempt to calculate the properties of such dynamically disordered systems demand extremely high computing power, making large-scale studies impractical.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

“He was a very impractical fellow,” one of Oppenheimer’s friends later said.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell