unattainable
Britishadjective
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This might seem like an unattainable ideal, but it isn’t.
"Bridgerton" established Page as the unattainable dreamboat everybody wants to be around, prime attributes for a paladin, a class requiring high charisma.
From Salon
"Because you've missed the chance, of course. I've never had a murder investigation… where… by three or four days in, you realise your suspect is… unattainable," she says.
From BBC
Dallek notes that “economic and demographic shifts intensified the far right’s sense of alienation and disempowerment,” that “deindustrialization” severed “white working-class voters” from unions and made the American Dream seem “increasingly unattainable.”
From Washington Post
Delays of even a few years would most likely make that goal unattainable, guaranteeing a hotter, more perilous future.
From New York Times
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