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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Impossible to span.

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  • adjective Unable to be bridged or crossed; impossible to span.

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  • adjective not bridgeable

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Examples

  • In the relationship handbook that's what you call an unbridgeable divide.

    Dear Mariella: I do yoga, which makes my boyfriend reckon that I've joined a cult. Can we get past this? 2011

  • Deputy CP leader Willie Snyman has also rejected co-operation, because of what he termed unbridgeable differences on principles.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • PARTICIPATING IN last week's interfaith event at Seton Hall University, an Iraqi law professor sought to play down what the Western media often describe as the unbridgeable divide between Iraq's Shia majority and its Sunni minority.

    unknown title 2009

  • Like several people in the telephone class, he said his concern with peak oil had strained his relationship with his spouse, creating an "unbridgeable" distance between them.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Like several people in the telephone class, he said his concern with peak oil had strained his relationship with his spouse, creating an "unbridgeable" distance between them.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • The revenue component, in the end, remained unbridgeable.

    John Boehner Leaves Debt Ceiling Talks With Obama 2011

  • The unbridgeable public-policy gulf that exists now between the Democrats and Republicans unable even to do a debt-ceiling deal opened long before the hanging-chad recount.

    Whatever Happened to 9/11? Daniel Henninger 2011

  • J.M. Coetzee is insightful about the violence at the heart of male sexuality and about the unbridgeable distance between parents and children.

    Cruelty in Fact and Fiction Adam Ross 2011

  • There is an unbridgeable gap between the cells of bacteria and of other living organisms.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • You are absolutely right about that, and it is an unbridgeable gap that exists between us. joe from Lowell says:

    Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010

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