as in unlikely
incapable of being solved or accomplished
the seemingly impossible problem of world hunger fitting everything in my backpack seemed an impossible task
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Recent Examples of impossible
The thought of long-term goals like home ownership, starting a family or even retiring one day can feel distant, if not impossible.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Creating a custom color is a bit more difficult, but not impossible, to find.
—Jessica Fields, Essence, 8 May 2025
The seemingly impossible assignment Horne and company have set for themselves is to create a weeks-long tournament focused on what appears to be a mundane idea.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
Don’t sleep on the jelly sandals below, which are almost exact dupes of those The Row flats that were absolutely everywhere (and somehow still impossible to find) last year.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 8 May 2025
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However, due to injuries suffered by Lucas Bergvall, James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski, this unlikely partnership should play together in Bilbao as Spurs attempt to win silverware for the first time since 2008.—
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Prison officials in Costa Rica caught an unlikely suspect attempting to smuggle drugs behind bars last week.—
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Those nurses never stopped fighting for Mattie, even as her situation seemed hopeless.—
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While critical gaps in testing still remain, innovation has ignited a diagnostic boom that has transformed the AIDS fight from hopeless to winnable.—
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Baltimore City Hall leaders acknowledged on Wednesday that squatting and social media networks potentially profiting from such activities are problematic.—
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Some nutrients in sunflower seeds may be problematic if overconsumed.—
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Imagine someone championing a project others deem impractical but later becoming the pioneer of a game-changing approach.—
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Additionally, much of the country's housing stock is older, making retrofitting AC units both costly and impractical.—
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Though their efforts were futile, their remains provide remarkable insight into the doomed city’s final moments.—
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Through the two-hour journey that makes up the Thunderbolt’s origin story, the audience experiences the way these skilled fighters continue butting heads over the most futile issues.—
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“Impossible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impossible. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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