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untraversable

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In its recall report, Waymo said vehicles traveling at higher speeds might slow but not stop when confronted with “a potentially untraversable flooded lane.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Liffre is in the hills, and the road which separated it from Châteauborne, wild and lonely enough in daylight and when the weather is fair, is almost untraversable in winter.

From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by O'Donnell, Elliott

Between nonentity and being yawns the untraversable gulf of infinity.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Odovacar himself, again a fugitive, sped across the plain south-eastward to Ravenna, compelled like so many Roman Emperors before him to shelter himself from the invader behind its untraversable network of rivers and canals.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas

Wild as the land was, it was thus far passable, while toward the north lay the untraversable.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)