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- noun Plural form of
impossible .
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This Obama feeling was more like a bolt of lightning, an arcing shock that in an instant made the impossible possible, and in whose light no challenge was beyond human reach, including, in the developing world, a seemingly endless list of "impossibles" such as ending waterborne diseases and cleaning up the corruption that cripples progress.
More Election 2008 Stories - Obama Rocks Abuja (Nigeria) 2008
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_Laissez-faire_ and much else being once dead, how many 'impossibles' will become possible!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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The squire of Overstow, who was regarded by the wealthy county people of Yorkshire as perfectly honest in all his dealings, and unduly rich withal, attracted to his table some of the most exclusive hunting set, people with titles, as well as the _parvenus_ "impossibles" who had bought huge places with the money made out of the war.
The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895
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Many 'impossibles' will have to become possible. (p. 228.) -- Supply-and-demand: For what noble work was there ever yet any audible 'demand' in that poor sense?
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Laissez-faire and much else being once well dead, how many 'impossibles' will become possible!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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We wrote down all our dreams, goals, "impossibles" to see if they could become possibles, and much more.
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And this is one of those worth-whiles of impossibles.
CHAPTER XXXIV 2010
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Port of Morrow, where we await fantastic impossibles on 05 Jan 2010 at 4: 33 pm Eve Mont
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Take Five: Barbara O’Neal and The Secret of Everything 2010
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Your time is so short, and my impossibles so much in the way that I dare not think of it.
Letter 240 2009
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Faced with a huge deficit, skyrocketing debt and unemployment north of 14%, Brian Cowen ' s government has responded with a plan that reads like a list of political impossibles: It calls for spending cuts, tax simplification, labor-market deregulation, public-sector job cuts and reductions in the number of " free " government services.
Ireland 2010
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