insuperable

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Here and elsewhere, scale is a messaging device, speaking of the Roman imperium’s insuperable need to seize and control large swaths of space.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

That the songs don’t match the story structurally is probably an insuperable problem.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

Dava Sobel says Eddington told Cecilia that he saw "no insuperable obstacles," and Cecilia kept in touch with Eddington after that initial encounter.

From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023

This is an insuperable problem, and I spent the entire series trying to understand how things went so wrong.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Galen’s extraordinary logorrhoea—his surviving works amount to 3 million words, and represent perhaps a third of what he wrote—is the consequence of his obsessive and futile effort to overcome this insuperable obstacle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton