impossible

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UK /ɪmˈpɒsəbl/US /ɪmˈpɑːsəbl/

Meaning

adjective
that cannot exist or be done; not possible
almost/virtually/nearly impossible

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All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor.

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hear when we go around I've done anthropology on the main statistical units everyone says it's impossible this can't be done our information is so peculiar in detail so that cannot be

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or impossible to express using fundamental first principles.

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All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor.

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