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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The film went out of circulation after a single television screening and has been largely inaccessible for nearly four decades.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026 -
But digital forensics experts kept working to find images in back-end software that might have been lost, corrupted or inaccessible.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Yet, for a host of reasons—including postwar Soviet memory politics, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the marginalization of Yiddish and Soviet Jewish literature—narratives of this experience remain largely unavailable to Western readers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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Even with essentially his entire starting lineup unavailable because of injuries, Lakers coach JJ Redick still looked forward to competing against a worthy opponent in the San Antonio Spurs.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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On stage, Vittorini doesn’t position himself as perfect or untouchable.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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The Miller Beach site is touted for developing as much as 760 acres along the lakefront, but that includes about 100 acres that are part of Indiana Dunes National Park and should be untouchable for any development uses.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Inapproachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inapproachable. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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