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as in inaccessible
hard or impossible to get to or get at
an eagle's nest in an unattainable location
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as in impossible
incapable of being solved or accomplished
unfortunately, world peace is probably an unattainable ideal
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Recent Examples of unattainable
Lawson's attorneys, Robert Boyd and Kevin Coleman, said errors occurred in both the pre-trial and trial phases and that despite moving the case out of Nelson County, an impartial jury was unattainable.
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Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 July 2025
Tickets on the Concorde were virtually unattainable for the average traveler, and its passengers were often business executives on an expense account or celebrities.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 26 June 2025
As someone who lost their father before doing Top Chef and knowing the fire that can ignite someone going into this competition is unattainable.
—Buddha Lo, People.com, 13 June 2025
Once Mbeumo proved unattainable, Newcastle opted for a different profile.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 11 July 2025
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Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 July 2025
Tickets on the Concorde were virtually unattainable for the average traveler, and its passengers were often business executives on an expense account or celebrities.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 26 June 2025
As someone who lost their father before doing Top Chef and knowing the fire that can ignite someone going into this competition is unattainable.
—Buddha Lo, People.com, 13 June 2025
Once Mbeumo proved unattainable, Newcastle opted for a different profile.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unattainable
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Investors in Southeast Asia and Latin America where traditional brokers remain expensive or inaccessible.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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In addition to the driftwood, ancient beaver tracks have been found in areas that would be inaccessible to the water-dwelling animals today, further supporting the idea that a paleolake once existed in the area.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
18 July 2025
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Humanity Protocol, valued at over a billion dollars, uses palm scans to confirm identity so impersonation becomes almost impossible.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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That suggests 2014 may have been a tipping point beyond which returning to normal wet-dry cycles may be impossible on human timescales.—
Mark Gongloff,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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When combined with the hinged center column, the user gets access to a full range of smooth and micro-incremental camera movements that feel like a slider and are unavailable with traditional tripod designs.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Neither officer’s injuries appeared to be life threatening, though both cops required surgery and remain unavailable for service.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
6 Aug. 2025
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Measures included depression using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D), blood tests for 76 inflammatory biomarkers, and symptoms broken down into cognitive-affective (e.g., feeling hopeless), somatic (e.g., poor sleep, fatigue), and anhedonia (loss of pleasure) clusters.—
Paul McClure
August 09,
New Atlas,
9 Aug. 2025
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Amid the callous acts and hopeless rage of these kids—who are resourceful enough to orchestrate a high-speed heist but too disaffected for much else—a supernatural eeriness surfaces through word of mysterious lights in the sky and missing citizens.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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But here’s what this at-bat told me: Miller has been widely acclaimed as the hardest thrower in baseball with pitches consistently exceeding 100 mph and was largely thought to be an untouchable for the Athletics.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
9 Aug. 2025
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Topics that were politically untouchable a decade ago are now freely debated.—
Anthony Trotter,
ABC News,
6 Aug. 2025
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But during photography’s earlier periods, when cameras looked like boxes and accordions, the process of making pictures was much more involved than a single touch to a screen—and often relatively unobtainable for average people.—
Kaila Philo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 June 2025
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Technological advances since the mid-1970s, including acoustic and satellite telemetry, inexpensive underwater cameras, and aerial and underwater drones, have given us insights into the biology, ecology, and behavior of sharks that were previously unobtainable.—
Hans Walters,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2025
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“Unattainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unattainable. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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