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insurmountable

adjective

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Too great or difficult to overcome.

Without access to the only available venue, the team faced an apparently insurmountable obstacle.

Dictionary practice example.

An insurmountable size limit prevented the team from moving its rigid sculpture through the exhibition room's only entrance without destroying the work.

From Making a Different Exhibition.

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