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also impassible
as in close
impossible to get through or into
the road was impassable until snowplows cleared it
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Recent Examples of impassable
Photo of the day: Flurries in New Mexico Residents across New Mexico and Colorado are hunkered down in biting wintry conditions that made roads impassable, as forecasters predicted there could be historic amounts of snow in the region.
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Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024
State of play: Helene's wrath left at least 300 roads impassable, though that number may be a low assessment, given the reporting limitations caused by the storm.
—Alexandria Sands, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
Instead, cities like Asheville, and eastern Tennessee, were hit with an almost biblical level of flooding, leaving a trail of impassable roads and collapsed bridges.
—Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
The Jamaica Public Service, the island’s electricity provider, said in a statement late Tuesday that impassable roads were preventing crews from restoring power in some areas.
—Andrea Rodríguez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
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Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024
State of play: Helene's wrath left at least 300 roads impassable, though that number may be a low assessment, given the reporting limitations caused by the storm.
—Alexandria Sands, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
Instead, cities like Asheville, and eastern Tennessee, were hit with an almost biblical level of flooding, leaving a trail of impassable roads and collapsed bridges.
—Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
The Jamaica Public Service, the island’s electricity provider, said in a statement late Tuesday that impassable roads were preventing crews from restoring power in some areas.
—Andrea Rodríguez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impassable
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Advertisement President Biden, who has a close relationship with Newsom, has pledged that the federal government will cover 100% of disaster assistance costs to California for the next 180 days.Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
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In 2022, there were a number of close races in the state including an Arizona attorney general race in which Democrat Kris Mayes narrowly defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh, one of the closest elections in state history, following a recount.Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Jan. 2025
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The film is the studio’s best hope at fielding a billion-dollar blockbuster in 2025, but even the Man of Steel isn’t impervious to box office Kryptonite.Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
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Anti-immigration narratives are impervious to facts.Dan Gooding, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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The issue was exacerbated by the company's inability to reconcile transactions with its banking partners, leading to frozen accounts and widespread customer frustration.Zareef Hamid, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Only a few of those items have now gotten cheaper, including frozen shrimp, swai fish and — most dramatically — screwdrivers.Juweek Adolphe, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
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Studying Trump’s image-making is, for better or worse, one of the few windows into the worldview of an otherwise impenetrable figure.Leah Dolan, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025
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Special run-flat tires, a new thing at the time, finish off the impenetrable visage.Josh Max, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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Pepe has been Portugal’s bedrock for almost two decades, a scratching, impermeable presence who won 141 caps for his country, and was central to their first major trophy at Euro 2016.Jacob Whitehead, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
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Clay deposits, forming an impermeable layer, result in waterlogged soil.David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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From Sandro Tonali to Dan Burn and Dubravka, this current side have been borderline impregnable over the past month.Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
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For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria.Natasha Hall, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2024
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Granted much of that California acreage is uninhabited forest as distinct from a dense, mostly wooden city filled with new immigrants, but that’s still eight times the size, a bigger area than than occupied by Manhattan.The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
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There’s also the simple fact that much of the densest forest is on terrain so steep that loggers’ machines couldn’t even access it.Elizabeth Miller, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2025
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“Impassable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impassable. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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