1
as in invincible
incapable of being defeated, overcome, or subdued
an impregnable fortress that had foiled one invader after another over the centuries
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as in dense
impossible to get through or into
the castle's supposedly impregnable walls
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Recent Examples of impregnable
His party lost a majority of seats in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state, once considered an impregnable fortress for his brand of Hindu nationalism and identity politics.
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2024
Once when told that a certain French fortress was impregnable and once when told that his mother-in-law had died.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 25 Mar. 2024
Inflation is a currency phenomenon, which means that Summers et al are floating non sequiturs rooted in the absurd notion that the U.S. economy is an impregnable island of economic activity, as opposed to an interconnected part of a global whole.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
Some Wall Street analysts agree with Belloni and his tweet that the fact Netflix’s competitors license content to it is a sign of its impregnable position atop the streaming heap.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2024
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2024
Once when told that a certain French fortress was impregnable and once when told that his mother-in-law had died.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 25 Mar. 2024
Inflation is a currency phenomenon, which means that Summers et al are floating non sequiturs rooted in the absurd notion that the U.S. economy is an impregnable island of economic activity, as opposed to an interconnected part of a global whole.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
Some Wall Street analysts agree with Belloni and his tweet that the fact Netflix’s competitors license content to it is a sign of its impregnable position atop the streaming heap.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impregnable
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After a 2-1 first-leg defeat at Celtic Park, Brendan Rodgers' men must overturn the deficit at the Allianz Arena, where Bayern Munich are practically invincible.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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Yet people are not things, empires are not invincible, and no one can control everything.—
NATALIYA GUMENYUK,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2025
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And because the mattress is incredibly well made, each box is fairly dense and heavy.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
27 Feb. 2025
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Zero visibility protocol: In situations of near-zero visibility due to dense fog, activate your hazard lights and seek a secure location, such as a nearby business’s parking lot, to pull over and come to a stop.—
Southern California Weather Report,
Orange County Register,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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All these protective systems do not make F-16s invulnerable.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Any pardons Biden issued should be virtually invulnerable to a court challenge.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
20 Jan. 2025
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Test Your Defenses Regularly No system is impenetrable, which is why continuous testing is essential.—
Julio Fort,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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If love is a conspiracy of two, impenetrable to outsiders, Iago finds a way to pierce through, seeding doubt about Desdemona in Othello.—
Maya Singer,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2025
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Pitt’s tattoos include the first initials of each of his family members, a set of lines designed by the 49-year-old Maria actress, his ex-wife’s birthday, an outline of Ötzi the Iceman and the Latin word Invictus, which means unconquerable.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Even the most vulnerable patrons of an unforgiving desert can confront tribulation with the command of unconquerable spirits.—
Yahya Salem,
CNN,
6 Aug. 2024
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Where even some of the more reluctant treatment subjects like Rick seem to be getting at least a little out of the experience, Lochlan appears impervious to this coaching.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2025
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Citing fellow pundit Ezra Klein, Pfaff says the media are generating a rising-crime vibe that seems impervious to the facts.—
F.K. Plous,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2025
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With more people than ever able to express ideas, realize creative projects and work together to inspire, entertain and inform one another, design and creativity are flourishing in new ways even in the face of these seemingly insurmountable obstacles.—
Bill Connolly,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2025
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And especially to my father, Bruce Paltrow, who has surmounted insurmountable obstacles this year.—
Lydia Price,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Yet these stories, in which class divisions form impassable rifts and submission to the status quo comes at great psychic cost, have much to say about our contemporary reality.—
Camille Bromley,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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The warnings have also prompted multiple highway closures in the area, with the department warning that roads could become impassable and that there was water already on some roads.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC News,
13 Feb. 2025
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