Example Sentences

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Lanting noted that most quantum computers demand “an impractically large amount of wiring and massive cryogenic enclosures.”

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

Displacing the garment industry would force those workers, many of whom cannot afford a car, to move or face impractically long bus commutes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023

But this would be impractically expensive and hardly appealing.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

But a scientific vision cannot exist in a priority-free vacuum unless it impractically ignores all resources and constraints.

From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2022

It was true that it was somewhat impractically mixed with his visions of Mrs. Peyton and Susy, and even included his previous scheme of relief for the improvident and incorrigible Hooker.

From Susy, a story of the Plains by Harte, Bret