How to Use the impossible in a Sentence
the impossible
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What is the sound of your first encounter with the impossible?
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Alex Galbraith,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Feb. 2026
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The Knicks had just pulled off the impossible.
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Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
11 June 2026
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You’re challenged to do the impossible at all times.
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Tracee Ellis Ross,
Glamour,
27 Oct. 2025
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That said, Musk has pulled off the impossible before.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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So what are your means to get through the impossible, not to get around it, not to play the part of somebody else to get through it.
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José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
7 May 2026
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But even Baker can do the impossible only so many times.
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Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
12 Nov. 2025
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Binotto is no stranger to chasing the impossible.
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Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
19 Dec. 2025
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The best time to recognize a moonshot is before the impossible part is over.
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Ethan Stone,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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For parents, that means facing the impossible task of helping their young kids make sense of loss far too early.
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Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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And science is all about achieving the impossible.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Aug. 2025
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In this case, however, the defense couldn’t do the impossible.
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Matt Young,
Houston Chronicle,
18 Jan. 2026
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Seven minutes later, the first firetruck slid to a stop as firefighters took in the impossible scene in front of them.
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Nichole Manna,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Jan. 2026
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Rethinking the impossible will have to become a habit.
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Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
19 Nov. 2025
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Sweden appears to have done the impossible.
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ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Which is to say that to dream the impossible dream is one thing, but to pretend that its reality is quite another.
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Ed Simon
september 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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The World Cup is the impossible dream in the United States.
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Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2025
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This team, somehow, pulls off the impossible, the miraculous.
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Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
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As his obsession grows, he’s drawn further into horror in pursuit of the truth of the impossible site.
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Neil McRobert,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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That these glassblowers did the impossible work of trying to get the styles and stigma right, shaping the glass in these little blue flames.
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Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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That the impossible standards we're sold are designed to keep us small, distracted, and spending money on the next fix.
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Sarah Oreck,
SELF,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Superman cast, however, pulled off the impossible in making this all look like so much fun.
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Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
31 Dec. 2025
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This is about what happens to ordinary people when the impossible crashes into their lives.
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James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Mar. 2026
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With the right networks and trust, the impossible becomes possible.
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Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
31 Dec. 2025
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Silent Hill 2 did the impossible by remaking an iconic game.
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Vincent Acovino,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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McDavid is so good that the impossible becomes inevitable.
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Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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How does Kevin Cheveldayoff pull off the impossible?
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Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
19 May 2026
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That expectation asks the impossible and, more important, asks it of the wrong party.
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The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
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Seeing the impossible But wait!
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Joe Rao,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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Maybe this isn’t really about art forms at all, but about the impossible dream of living multiple lives while being restricted to one.
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Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
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Mohammed al-Sawwaf on the impossible choice of leaving Gaza or staying to tell his people’s stories.
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Lit Hub Daily,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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