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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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It’s tucked in an old-growth redwood tree in the backcountry of the park, in Humboldt County, where there are no roads and a creek presents an impassable barrier, Williams-Claussen said.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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With the strait virtually impassable, European benchmark natural gas futures have also skyrocketed and could more than double from levels seen before the war if shipments through the strait are halted for longer than two months, according to Goldman Sachs.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Unpassable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpassable. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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