impossibility
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A universal standard for immorality in art may be an impossibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But beyond the material hardships, many describe a similar feeling: the impossibility of unplugging from their problems.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Without equal citizenship, equal voting rights, and equal opportunity to elect representatives of one’s choice, republican government was an impossibility.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
Mangione’s reasons succinctly reflect a society where consistently reliable healthcare is a virtual impossibility without millions of dollars at your disposal.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
I lamented for the hundredth time the impossibility of creating stained-glass windows with blocks.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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Spaeny: The great thing about this show is that it’s zeroing in on everyday impossibilities of life, the things that should be so simple, but drive us all up the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
When it comes to Ronaldo, his compatriots have learned that, as he usually says, "there are no impossibilities".
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
The Los Angeles Times investigation concluded that he did not, based on interviews with more than a dozen former Frito-Lay employees, company records and some glaring inconsistencies — nay, impossibilities — in his story.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Each explores forgiveness and the wages of emotional damage, and incorporates those psychological trials into stories fueled in some way by an all-consuming desire to realize one of life's impossibilities: a do-over.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2022
If we lift the veil and look underneath...we shall discover much emptiness, darkness, and confusion; nay, if I mistake not, direct impossibilities and contradictions....
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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