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  • adjective That cannot be conquered; unconquerable.

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Examples

  • This reminds me of something Daniel Davies wrote about America being perhaps the most non-racist society yet created but one with a substantial & inconquerable “negro problem” that it will never get over.

    Matthew Yglesias » Minority Report 2007

  • Perchevski wondered how he could demonstrate, to her satisfaction, that she was not in competition with inconquerable youth.

    Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

  • Never had he felt so alive, so competent, so inconquerable.

    The Swordbearer Cook, Glen 1982

  • You have to meld into a single inconquerable engine of destruction.

    The Swordbearer Cook, Glen 1982

  • At Neufchateau we reached the river Meuse with whose glory the names of heroic inconquerable Petain and Verdun shall be forever shared.

    The Greater Love George T. McCarthy

  • Now that the instant of danger had actually come she felt an inconquerable courage well up in her, which, as she stood with brilliant eye and glowing cheek, made her very beautiful.

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • He is the inconquerable fugitive, the indomitable meek.

    Adolf 1920

  • She had felt an inconquerable aversion for the evil hag; she felt it now, and shivered in the warm breeze.

    The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel 1915

  • And drawing back with her characteristic inconquerable shyness, as he advanced to Miss Forbis, plainly unconscious of any presence save hers,

    When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908

  • He smiled cruelly as he thought of that inconquerable barrier to her coming.

    The Shadow Witch Gertrude Crownfield 1906

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