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insupportable

[in-suh-pawr-tuh-buhl, -pohr-] / ˌɪn səˈpɔr tə bəl, -ˈpoʊr- /


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In “Exit the King,” he confronts the insupportable reality of death with the same madcap delirium of his better known works, such as “The Bald Soprano,” “The Chairs” and “Rhinoceros.”

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2026

For a culture so neurocentric — so brain-bound, as Mr. Clark later called it — this was an insupportable notion, a bridge too far.

From New York Times Jun. 11, 2021

“It is my aunts who are being driven by malice and greed to make the vexatious, false, and insupportable allegations which form the basis of their probate lawsuit in New Hampshire,” he said.

From Washington Times Feb. 7, 2018

That people who were so vulnerable and needed special care were instead treated as an afterthought is insupportable.

From Washington Post Sep. 17, 2017

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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