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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Their archives, as Pember reports, are often inaccessible; a bureaucratic fog obscures much of the record.—
Charles Arrowsmith,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025 -
Clinical trials generate vast amounts of data which could be used to develop other treatments, beyond those directly attached to trial outcomes, but much of it is inaccessible, because it’s stored in incompatible formats and systems.—
Amy Guttman,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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At present, details regarding the extent of land burned and the size of the crew conducting the prescribed fire are unavailable.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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This is one where switching watch faces has for some people let to watch faces becoming unavailable.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The star shortstop prospect should be as untouchable as a prospect gets this season.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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Much easier, surely, to turn away from familiarity (the untouchable clichés), as many artists have fruitfully done, but much harder to make the familiar so new it feels discovered.—
Ocean Vuong,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Inapproachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inapproachable. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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