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  • adverb In an unreachable way.

Etymologies

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unreachable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And the safety standards for getting people up and down reliably are just unreachably high.

    Science 2010

  • Can we, with words, ever name the truth as such, or is the most we can hope for a fist of verbal signs that are consistent with one another and that make a working replica of the truth that looms unreachably in the hinterland?

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Can we, with words, ever name the truth as such, or is the most we can hope for a fist of verbal signs that are consistent with one another and that make a working replica of the truth that looms unreachably in the hinterland?

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • The discovery of neutrino masses were a surprise, but fit nicely in the standard model if there is new physics at (unreachably) high energies.

    Guest Post: David E. Kaplan on the LHC on the History Channel Sean 2008

  • Gentle and reflective in tone, the anthology reveals the heart and mind of a citizen of an island--Sri Lanka, once known as Ceylon--which most of us think of as beautiful, exotic, and almost unreachably remote.

    Yesterday is another country Joan Druett 2008

  • May 11, 2008 at 12:12 pm the troll mask cannot be found, it was flung as a frisbee and now unreachably upon the roof.

    Mom gator takes - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • This was the first poem I ever memorised probably the last, too when I was about 10, at which age the 20-year-old poet seems immeasurably and unreachably mature....

    A little A.E. Housman Jessica 2007

  • I tried to push it back on its shaft but the shaft receded unreachably into the door.

    LifeOfaStartUp.com Podcast : Some Inspiration Ben Barren 2005

  • I tried to push it back on its shaft but the shaft receded unreachably into the door.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Ben Barren 2005

  • This was the first poem I ever memorised probably the last, too when I was about 10, at which age the 20-year-old poet seems immeasurably and unreachably mature....

    Archive 2007-04-01 Jessica 2007

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