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unobtainable

adjective as in unapproachable

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Economic growth is the reason extreme poverty has become much rarer around the world, life expectancy has increased dramatically, and most Americans now own many things that were unobtainable luxuries decades ago.

Rather than agonize over how to restore the landscape to some former, unobtainable baseline of “natural,” officials unanimously agreed that this bold re-imagining of the coast was the best way forward among no perfect options.

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And, of course, celebrity is this lifestyle that by definition is unobtainable.

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It felt so unobtainable, actually, to me, because I knew what I saw on television, I knew the examples that I didn't see on television or in theaters or on stage.

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It was tested in 2013, but Hill ruled that technological advances for even smaller pieces of DNA may yield previously unobtainable results.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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