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

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

If the left’s challenges appear daunting, they are perhaps not yet insuperable.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

For news networks and platforms, these relentless, bald-faced falsehoods present an almost insuperable challenge.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2020

South Africa’s Mediterranean climate would have been ideal for them, but the 2,000 miles of tropical conditions between Ethiopia and South Africa posed an insuperable barrier.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond