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- adverb In an
insoluble manner;irresolubly ,irresolvably .
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Examples
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Fantasy has never been a genre, always a mode, although this is insolubly confused, I think, by the appropriation of the term in the 70s to a marketing category that was bound to a (set of?) rigorously defined genre (s?) of mainly "secondary world" Fantasy, with magic and whatnot.
The Great Debate Hal Duncan 2005
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In Cuba, revolution, socialism, and national independence are insolubly linked.
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Peace, progress, human rights - these three goals are insolubly linked to one another: it is impossible to achieve one of these goals if the other two are ignored.
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But no writer remains more solidly and insolubly entire.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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This was a desperate, a foolhardy trick-but in its very boldness, in its insolubly paradoxical aspects, lay its strength.
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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Though the only act which ever forces us to bow in reverent awe, it is insolubly mysterious, irrational, crazy perhaps, but superb.
The Nature of Goodness George Herbert Palmer 1887
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Claims are generally only found indefinite if they are "insolubly ambiguous, and no narrowing construction can properly be adopted."
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They usually wouldn't bring up "insolubly ambiguous" instead, the threshold is "whether you can really tell what they mean to claim".
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The standard is already low for pending applications -- examiners don't use the "insolubly ambiguous" standard and have probably never heard of it.
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Claims are generally only found indefinite if they are "insolubly ambiguous, and no narrowing construction can properly be adopted."
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