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  • adjective Alternative spelling of unbridgeable.

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Examples

  • There seems to be an unbridgable moral gap between the two groups.

    The Psychologies of Conservatism and Liberalism 2009

  • The newspaper manufactured an unbridgable rift resulting in a non-existent paralysis among the leaders, arising out of the discussion that never took place.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • It highlighted without mercy the unbridgable constitutional gulf between "the Prefect Constitution" on one side and "la constitution parfait" on the other.

    i'm just saying 2005

  • England and the Catholicism of Lady Burton there was a great gulf fixed, and one which she proved to be unbridgable.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • Sometimes I fear that those who posit an unbridgable chasm between faith and reason are building a straw man.

    inshallah shalom 2006

  • The gulf between them appears to have been unbridgable; for in time this son married and in turn had a son, but neither joy nor sorrow brought the sundered together.

    The Lair of the White Worm 2003

  • So if that is one of the reasons, I think we could just assume unbridgable ideological differences along with a totally different perseption of “history”, “time”, and “entitlement”.

    Selling Out My Birthright | Jewschool 2003

  • Raschid, against all the odds, in spite of the unbridgable gulfs of background and upbringing that yawned between them, she loved him.

    Falcon's Prey Jordan, Penny 1997

  • The gap appeared unbridgable, but a group with an SA Communist

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • What had seemed to me an unbridgable gulf became the source of a greater love than ever before.

    Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925

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