Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being resolved, in any sense.
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- adjective not able to be
resolved
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not easily solved
- adjective not capable of being resolved
Etymologies
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Examples
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An hour came and went, and suddenly the issue was "unresolvable," and I was "a journalist up to trouble."
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IMO, that's a bad thing, but it's not any kind of unresolvable crisis.
Patterico's Pontifications CW Desiato 2008
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"For .ly domains to be unresolvable, the five .ly root servers that are authoritative *all* have to be offline, or responding with empty responses," he said.
Faster Forward: Libya shutdown raises questions about bit.ly, security of foreign domains 2011
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For Lincoln saw an unresolvable tension between the Constitution of a democratic republic and the policies of aggrandizement and intemperate self-interest that lead from the manners of freedom to the slavish love of power.
David Bromwich: To Maintain a Republic David Bromwich 2011
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But perhaps its phenomenal success really only proves that, whether in Bangkok or Baldock, people everywhere love to escape from the real world, with all its unresolvable dilemmas and random irritants, into a realm where reason rules supreme, and where every problem has a perfect solution — even if the process of finding it leaves us frothing with frustration.
Games Maxine 2009
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It has outlived the Cold War, Vietnam, 2 Iraq wars and seems to unresolvable.
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Again, the emphasis on youth seems to be a proxy for unresolvable personality issues with the established names.
Is It Time to Clear Out Australia's Cricket Selectors? Richard Lord 2011
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For Lincoln saw an unresolvable tension between the Constitution of a democratic republic and the policies of aggrandizement and intemperate self-interest that lead from the manners of freedom to the slavish love of power.
David Bromwich: To Maintain a Republic David Bromwich 2011
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The same prospect of litigation over unresolved — and perhaps unresolvable — scientific arguments was among the reasons that the accusations of lying in [an earlier case] were deemed to be nonactionable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting Libel Decision Arising from the Vaccine / Autism Debate 2010
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It has outlived the Cold War, Vietnam, 2 Iraq wars and seems to unresolvable.
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