unobtainable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"I mean, come on, it's like an unobtainable dream."
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Economic growth is the reason extreme poverty has become much rarer around the world, life expectancy has increased dramatically, and most Americans now own many things that were unobtainable luxuries decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Rather than agonize over how to restore the landscape to some former, unobtainable baseline of “natural,” officials unanimously agreed that this bold re-imagining of the coast was the best way forward among no perfect options.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
But even for white Americans who supposedly are expected to be insulated from such issues, the American dream is still unobtainable.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2024
For a city whose economy was built on slaughter, kosher meat remained an unobtainable luxury.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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