as in inaccessible
hard or impossible to get to or get at
conventional wisdom had long held that the mountain's summit was inapproachable from the northern slope
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Adjective
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On the northeast of the fire, by Sugar Pine Mountain, crews worked in steep, inaccessible terrain to bring containment lines into the natural rock bluff, trying to cut the fire off south of the Wishon Reservoir for the protection of the critical hydroelectric infrastructure.—
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Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025 -
These schools reinforced both racial and class divides by creating exclusive education spaces inaccessible to many Black and low-income students.—
Time,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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If a separate closet or dresser outside the bathroom is unavailable to you, then Trosclair advises being diligent in cycling through your linens and washing them regularly to fight any mildewing, molding, or weathering from the moisture.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
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While Smith-Schuster projects to be the one-for-one replacement with Rice and rookie Jalen Royals unavailable Friday, the burden of offensive production doesn’t simply lie with him.—
Pete Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Any stable resolution is likely years away, and as untouchable as the pro game may seem, there are versions of college football’s future that look particularly good for the NFL, and versions that look more threatening.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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At the start of the summer of 2024, media reports claimed Garnacho had been classed as one of the club’s three ‘untouchable’ players that not even the largest transfer fee would prise from Old Trafford.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Inapproachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inapproachable. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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