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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 Such has been the unsolvable — and largely unwinnable — issue with looking back at the King of Pop’s life.—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026 The splitter, which generated a 50 percent whiff rate Tuesday, is practically unsolvable.—Katie Woo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026 This is not an unsolvable problem.—Mary Eber, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unsolvable