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

Two women who are attached to their cultural roots yet alienated by the conservative values of their communities hold for each other the answer to problems that until now have seemed insuperable.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2023

That assured at least a halving of the match with Viktor Hovland — the halving did come — and pushed the United States to an insuperable 14½ points.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 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