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Google recently showed that increasing the number of qubits actually lowered mistakes, a long-standing challenge that many thought was unsolvable.—Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026 Prices are again rising at more than double the Federal Reserve’s target, but this isn’t an unsolvable problem.—Editorial Board, Washington Post, 10 June 2026 Those issues are the city’s seemingly unsolvable budget crisis, trash pickup fees, paid parking in Balboa Park and allowing large ADU developments in neighborhoods of single-family homes.—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026 Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for unsolvable