insolvable
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Wartime Bletchley, she said, was about bringing together technology and people in order to crack what seemed like insolvable problems - and that remained the priority today even in a very different world.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2023
“These are not insolvable problems,” said Marion Nestle, a food studies professor at New York University.
From New York Times • May 2, 2020
The way solid police work cracks a case that at first seemed insolvable reads like a thrilling police procedural set in a neighborhood fraught with danger.
From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2015
Far from being a collection of insolvable stumbling blocks, social issues have the potential to be a defining strength of the Centrist Party.
From Salon • May 11, 2013
The problem, thus propounded, was insolvable; but the nation propounded it thus.
From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de
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