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Recent Examples of unmovable That the incumbent commissioner can’t turn the ship around despite what seem like positive intentions is not a mark in favor of keeping her pushing against a seemingly unmovable object. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2025 But the six other names had all found new homes by opening night, including three – Pierre-Luc Dubois, Joonas Korpisalo and Ryan Johansen – who were traded despite having contracts that felt unmovable. Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025 Voronkov is an unmovable monster at net front, with hands and vision that belie his frame. Aaron Portzline, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024 In Georgia, the irresistible force is about to meet the unmovable object. Christian Caryl, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unmovable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmovable
Adjective
  • That means moving from static education to intelligent enablement.
    Mike Britton, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • That makes a living shoreline’s capacity to adapt to its surroundings — unlike a static seawall — one of its biggest strengths, said Melinda Donnelly, an assistant research scientist and biology professor at UCF who works with Walters.
    Molly Duerig, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Once known for creating stiff, crunchy, and nearly immovable styles, the best hairsprays today are a far cry from the lacquered looks of decades past.
    Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 6 June 2025
  • Gavin Sheets came out of Sunday’s collision with an immovable object better than could reasonably be expected.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • Wood’s Cycad Is Extinct In The Wild And Other Cycads Are Not Far Behind Somewhere in the greenhouses of botanical gardens, the last living males of Encephalartos woodii still stand — majestic, immobile and unable to reproduce.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • About 30 minutes later, three deputies debated how to book the immobile man.
    Christopher Damien, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Slavik displayed a still image from the March 2016 video that apparently depicts Combs dragging Ventura down the hall of a Los Angeles hotel.
    Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 26 June 2025
  • Pre-season in still weeks away, so fans would do well to remember that and stay calm.
    Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in his dissent in Myers v. United States in 1925 would have required even postmasters to be confirmable and even irremovable by the president.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Impeachment is an irremovable stain on any presidency, and Trump knows it.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Dec. 2019

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“Unmovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmovable. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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