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Recent Examples of unmovable Though onscreen the plot necessitated that these women wind up married (and presumably with a mortgage), the fantasy of the single girl in her apartment has proved unmovable. Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 The Penguins view a very small list of players as being unmovable. Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025 Late great center Dikembe Mutombo, who sadly died at just 58 following a battle with brain cancer on Sept. 30 last year, was one of the most unmovable post forces the league has ever seen. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for unmovable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmovable
Adjective
  • Strategic planning should not be a static, annual exercise.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Ursa Major will be able to conduct full-scale static firings, and drop and temperature storage testing for current and future missile systems.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Across centuries, rulers who built their power on fear or oppression seemed immovable in their day.
    John Hope Bryant, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Male silverbacks were virtually immovable, acting as the displacing animal in more than 99% of interactions.
    RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The missions led to several breakthroughs, including a motionless lane-switch mechanism, a safer magnetic levitation system, and improved structural resilience.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Small panfish and bream float stunned and motionless in the five feet or so of zapped lake around the boat, but the target eels do not seem as susceptible in the marshy edges that are lined with brush.
    Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite their name, the mobile homes are conspicuously immobile.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In this model, our planet was covered for its first 2 to 3 billion years by a rigid, immobile outer shell with convection processes occurring beneath it in Earth’s mantle.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Prosecutors said police later identified Korosa from a community bulletin containing a still image from the CTA surveillance video.
    Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the richest, most enduring pleasures here are formal ones, beginning with the exacting still-life compositions and oily, vehement primary hues of Jenkins’ 16mm lensing, which can make a painterly subject of a maritime squall or a mustard-yellow wading boot.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Aug. 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
Adjective
  • Or will travelers stay stuck in the Instagram era?
    Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The difference between people who achieve their most important goals and those who stay stuck often isn’t talent, luck, or even opportunity.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Unmovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmovable. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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