unbreachable

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Recent Examples of unbreachable Rather than hold management accountable, shareholders typically run into an unbreachable wall of opposition from founders like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Snap’s Evan Spiegel, and Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who control a majority of voting shares at their respective companies. Seth Fiegerman, CNN, 29 Oct. 2022 Dump trucks with tires twice my height rolled past us, ferrying dirt like so many ants, building what Bardini and his fellow-engineers hope will be unbreachable barriers. James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2023 Best to arrive at her fort defenseless to have half a chance at challenging her own almost unbreachable defense system. Bono, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2022 There are times when the gap between Catra and Adora felt unbreachable, and then there's the horrible robotic hivemind stuff in the final season. Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022 At the start of Europe’s migration crisis in 2015, the English Channel was regarded as an unbreachable barrier, its shifting currents and volatile weather making any attempt to cross too dangerous. New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021 This reduces what were once formerly unbreachable barriers to entry to many industries. Bill Fischer, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021 The act of crossing over the supposedly unbreachable rivers of race is meant to be shameful. Nylah Burton, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2021 Another, an election-security expert named Harri Hursti, tracks down supposedly unbreachable voting machines to tinker with their vulnerabilities. Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 28 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbreachable
Adjective
  • France and Germany have responded with a seriousness typically reserved for Russia and China, emphasizing the importance of maintaining Europe’s borders as inviolable.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Although today’s order appears to be stronger and more resilient than its 1930s counterpart, in recent years, norms that were long considered inviolable have been flouted.
    Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The couple was seemingly unassailable, but the 36-year-old dancer’s recent interview with People has drawn the ire of her late husband’s family.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Assad's Baathist dictatorship, seemingly unassailable for decades, has crumbled.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The beautiful Palisades home my mother cared for most of her life had always been untouchable in my mind’s eye.
    Yesika Salgado, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Their overconfidence led to underestimating systemic risks, believing their models were untouchable.
    Mark Kane, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria.
    Natasha Hall, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • For outsiders, Oymyakon’s unyielding cold might seem insurmountable.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Nothing is insurmountable when many hands can lighten loads.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The outcome boils down to a key determination: Is Patrick Mahomes inevitable, or has Josh Allen become invincible?
    Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • It was born in 1949 not to strengthen the U.S. from external attack but to weaken our invincible self-defense by squandering money, weapons and manpower on Europeans.
    Armstrong Williams, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Any pardons Biden issued should be virtually invulnerable to a court challenge.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The bills are strong but not invulnerable; fractures often occur during these interactions, leaving pieces lodged in unfortunate victims.
    Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Included in the exhibition was one of its most recent acquisitions, a black brooch that is also bulletproof, as if meant to protect the heart.
    Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Trudeau was thought to be so politically bulletproof that even a bizarre blackface scandal a few years later would not sink him.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Unbreachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbreachable. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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