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Recent Examples of unbreachable
Dump trucks with tires twice my height rolled past us, ferrying dirt like so many ants, building what Bardini and his fellow-engineers hope will be unbreachable barriers.
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James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2023
Best to arrive at her fort defenseless to have half a chance at challenging her own almost unbreachable defense system.
—Bono, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2022
Rather than hold management accountable, shareholders typically run into an unbreachable wall of opposition from founders like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Snap’s Evan Spiegel, and Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who control a majority of voting shares at their respective companies.
—Seth Fiegerman, CNN, 29 Oct. 2022
There are times when the gap between Catra and Adora felt unbreachable, and then there's the horrible robotic hivemind stuff in the final season.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
At the start of Europe’s migration crisis in 2015, the English Channel was regarded as an unbreachable barrier, its shifting currents and volatile weather making any attempt to cross too dangerous.
—New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
This reduces what were once formerly unbreachable barriers to entry to many industries.
—Bill Fischer, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
The act of crossing over the supposedly unbreachable rivers of race is meant to be shameful.
—Nylah Burton, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2021
Another, an election-security expert named Harri Hursti, tracks down supposedly unbreachable voting machines to tinker with their vulnerabilities.
—Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 28 Oct. 2020
James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2023
Best to arrive at her fort defenseless to have half a chance at challenging her own almost unbreachable defense system.
—Bono, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2022
Rather than hold management accountable, shareholders typically run into an unbreachable wall of opposition from founders like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Snap’s Evan Spiegel, and Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who control a majority of voting shares at their respective companies.
—Seth Fiegerman, CNN, 29 Oct. 2022
There are times when the gap between Catra and Adora felt unbreachable, and then there's the horrible robotic hivemind stuff in the final season.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
At the start of Europe’s migration crisis in 2015, the English Channel was regarded as an unbreachable barrier, its shifting currents and volatile weather making any attempt to cross too dangerous.
—New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
This reduces what were once formerly unbreachable barriers to entry to many industries.
—Bill Fischer, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
The act of crossing over the supposedly unbreachable rivers of race is meant to be shameful.
—Nylah Burton, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2021
Another, an election-security expert named Harri Hursti, tracks down supposedly unbreachable voting machines to tinker with their vulnerabilities.
—Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 28 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbreachable
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Summer is usually the time of long days and longer vacations, but summer 2025 was a season where the business world’s inviolable godhead, the chief executive officer, looked less and less like a position worth exalting.—
Ian Chaffee,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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The debate is shifting to how much of Russia's battlefield victories will be accepted, rather than over rights and the inviolable nature of international borders.—
Matthew Tostevin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
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China is also aiming to challenge what many Europeans thought was its industry’s unassailable lead in internal combustion engine technology.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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But ‘Big Six’ means the biggest, richest, most powerful clubs (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Tottenham), the ones whose status has been largely unassailable for the past 15 years.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Even elements once considered untouchable—such as address space or network identity—are being reimagined as programmable, on-demand resources accessible through APIs and policy layers.—
Vincentas Grinius,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Newsrooms — like many other companies, amid a tight labor market and booming economy — responded with intense sympathy for junior employees who felt mistreated by managers and bullied by untouchable stars.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Resilience is the key The word ‘resilient’ used to mean impregnable and capable of withstanding all challenges.—
David Parker,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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One of the grandest occasions in golf was in 1930, when the great Bobby Jones won the British Amateur at St. Andrews and then captured the claret jug at Royal Liverpool on his way to winning the Grand Slam of that era — the impregnable quadrilateral, as it was called.—
Doug Ferguson,
Chicago Tribune,
16 July 2025
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Yet, for a team whose defense hardly made any plays for months at a time last season and dug an insurmountable hole by never getting the lucky bounce or break in a zillion one-score losses, there were no apologies.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Big Thief has endured both, and for years, their very survival seemed to suggest that no rupture was insurmountable.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But every time you’re done lifting, your brain feels invincible.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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Here in California, our once-invincible white collar economy is beginning to shatter.—
Michael Bernick,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Luthor has always been an ingenious nemesis for the invulnerable Superman: a merely intelligent human, an evildoing Prometheus out to steal fire from our benevolent cape-wearing god.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
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But second-strike capabilities are not invulnerable.—
SAM WINTER-LEVY,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Aug. 2025
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Items procured in this manner included a bulletproof Escalade, high-end watches, and a 19-foot LED television.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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Its applications include protective motorcycle gear, hockey neck guards that will prevent cuts from skates and even bulletproof vests.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Unbreachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbreachable. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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