How to Use insuperable in a Sentence

insuperable

adjective
  • Adding new ones will pose a challenge, but not an insuperable one.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • When an athlete achieves a new record or wins a gold medal, fans are now plagued with insuperable questions.
    — Matt Hart, The Atlantic, 30 July 2021
  • In spite of their insuperable aura, black hat hackers don't all need to be at the very pinnacle of their field.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2018
  • As long as there have been physicists, there have been physicists who worry their field has come up against an insuperable barrier.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
  • My father was convinced that my deafness would be an insuperable obstacle.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2020
  • Obviously, her spirit was strong and love of life insuperable.
    — Luis Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Consider several factors that will blunt what looks on paper like an insuperable edge.
    — chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • That the songs don’t match the story structurally is probably an insuperable problem.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • That means that Biden and the anti-Trump cause face a potentially insuperable challenge.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Their stories, which pit dazzling achievement against insuperable obstacles, are both gripping and wrenching.
    — Jane Kamensky, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The obstacle comes in the Senate, where the party’s 50-vote threshold will become insuperable.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The practical obstacles are insuperable, and the likely effects would be very unwelcome to its proponents.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Lemoine is a supervillain in the least subtle sense, with near-infinite money, insuperable technology and maniacal plans for a grandiose world takeover.
    — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • This extension of rights, Stone argued, was needed to address an otherwise insuperable problem.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Her white competitors had an insuperable advantage, Powell writes.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • There is little doubt that the Russian cold poses a special set of problems, industry specialists say, although nothing is insuperable.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2020
  • Welles, who died in 1985, never finished editing his film; legal and financial problems proved insuperable.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Nonetheless, logistics and manpower may not be an insuperable issue.
    — Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Or that Harris’ fundraising advantages over any potential rival were already insuperable.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
  • Two women who are attached to their cultural roots yet alienated by the conservative values of their communities hold for each other the answer to problems that until now have seemed insuperable.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Twitter’s comic advantages over late night are myriad, insuperable, and perhaps obvious.
    — Inkoo Kang, Slate Magazine, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Ten months on, Angel conceded that the political differences between them had become insuperable.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Opera houses have been mostly inactive, in light of the nearly insuperable epidemiological challenges of assembling soloists, a chorus, and an orchestra in one space.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Policy-makers are faced with an almost insuperable task of curbing inflationary pressures while attempting to entice real economic growth.
    — Edwin T. Burton, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The immigrants face little direct bigotry; their main adversary is German law, which with frosty indifference throws up insuperable obstacles to their efforts to apply for asylum.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Frye seeks to show how the Kremlin’s actions are the result of countless tradeoffs and difficult choices, rather than the expression of an omnipotent ruler’s whims or an insuperable historical legacy.
    — Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
  • None of this is to say that segregation is necessarily an insuperable obstacle to educational excellence.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 July 2019
  • Powerful forces were arrayed against him, including Carter himself, but Lewis’s opposition was implacable, though not insuperable.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • In other words, the Constitution is not by itself an insuperable barrier against the authoritarian temptation.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Mr Vala decided that the BJP should indeed have the first go at proving a majority in the state assembly, despite the apparently insuperable arithmetic.
    — The Economist, 19 May 2018

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