insurmountably
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Though the two sides stood just yards apart, the ideological distance between them seemed insurmountably wide, and only grew more pronounced as the evening progressed.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2023
That is no slight; what even the club has come to call “93:20” set the bar insurmountably high.
From New York Times • May 22, 2022
It’s so significant, and I really do believe that ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ lives up insurmountably to its name with that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2021
The fact that the mission became NASA’s next great planetary-science project—and that it even exists at all—is a triumph over what, at times, seemed to be insurmountably long odds.
From Scientific American • Mar. 9, 2021
They had found the antipathy to a standing army insurmountably strong even in the late Parliament, a Parliament disposed to place large confidence in them and in their master.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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