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At Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, fee collectors and trail maintenance employees lost their jobs, which could make trails unpassable after heavy rains, Brengel told the news service.
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Gary Stoller, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Rodgers and others said locals were using pack mules to help rescue people as well as to deliver food, water and other essentials to residents in areas where roads remain unpassable.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
Human and drug traffickers, and a massive wave of humanity, have now beaten a path through the previously unpassable Darien Gap, which separates the two continents.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Mar. 2024
Southwest has canceled more than a dozen departing from Louisville after Arctic blast that rendered routes unpassable last week.
—Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022
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Gary Stoller, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Rodgers and others said locals were using pack mules to help rescue people as well as to deliver food, water and other essentials to residents in areas where roads remain unpassable.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
Human and drug traffickers, and a massive wave of humanity, have now beaten a path through the previously unpassable Darien Gap, which separates the two continents.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Mar. 2024
Southwest has canceled more than a dozen departing from Louisville after Arctic blast that rendered routes unpassable last week.
—Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpassable
impassable
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State highways and county roads also became impassable, with government agencies issuing multiple no travel advisories amid blizzard warnings.—
Angela George,
Sioux Falls Argus Leader,
26 Mar. 2026
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Although parked legally, the cars made the route impassable for school buses, plow trucks, fire trucks or ambulances.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Unpassable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpassable. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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