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For the second task, the dogs were presented with an impossible challenge: opening an unopenable container to access delicious-smelling food inside.

From Scientific American • Jun. 9, 2022

The very definition of a First World problem: unopenable curtains.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

Judith Scott’s sculptures sit like large, unopened, possibly unopenable bundles, contents unknown, in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2014

As one account notes, Woodbridge had rigged the lock so the bolt would catch if tried before the tumblers were set, rendering it unopenable.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2013

Each one had six unopenable windows on a side.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher