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  • adjective Cannot be traversed.

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  • adjective incapable of being traversed

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Examples

  • Despite the horrendous facts of the case, the court made the correct determination and spared us, as a society, of the burden of attempting to navigate an untraversable slippery slope.

    Constitutional Issues 2009

  • Despite the horrendous facts of the case, the court made the correct determination and spared us, as a society, of the burden of attempting to navigate an untraversable slippery slope.

    Criminal Law 2009

  • Despite the horrendous facts of the case, the court made the correct determination and spared us, as a society, of the burden of attempting to navigate an untraversable slippery slope.

    Supreme Court 2009

  • Despite the horrendous facts of the case, the court made the correct determination and spared us, as a society, of the burden of attempting to navigate an untraversable slippery slope.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2008

  • Despite the horrendous facts of the case, the court made the correct determination and spared us, as a society, of the burden of attempting to navigate an untraversable slippery slope.

    Daily Record--Legal Currents Column 2008

  • Despite the horrendous facts of the case, the court made the correct determination and spared us, as a society, of the burden of attempting to navigate an untraversable slippery slope.

    Is justice obtained if not consistently applied? 2008

  • But all that really just allows us to coexist with the inviolable, untraversable, and utterly vast spaces between us. p.

    Gilead at Ray Fowler .org 2009

  • Two quiet figures were within the room; two figures, equally still and impassive, equally removed by an untraversable distance from the teeming earth and all that it contains, though soon to lie in it.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • These were uncrossable distances, barely manageable at a slow walk, and completely untraversable at a run.

    Scenes From An Art Fair, Written After Seven Hours of Driving To CT 2005

  • The diggers were washed out of their holes, the Flat became an untraversable bog.

    Australia Felix 2003

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