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/ʌnsəpˈɑːsəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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not to be exceeded
unsurpassable standards of workmanship
unsurpassable skill
How To Use unsurpassable In A Sentence
- Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
- Thus the new connotations and conceptualizations put forth by the Fathers revitalized the Church's memory of what the Apostles taught, and historical theology today would enable us to revitalize our memory of what the "unsurpassable" Fathers taught. Archive 2007-03-01
- In more recent years, Napoleon—impersonated by Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Herbert Lom, Woody Allen and others—has featured in a number of more or less colossal productions, none unsurpassable. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
- Arabian taint; Gothic pure, authoritative, unsurpassable, and unaccusable; -- its proper principles of structure being once understood and admitted. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
- That would have been an unsurpassable violin-piano French programme.
- We see this same science fiction morality play told yet again in 2010: The Year We Made Contact, the film that could never be as great as the unsurpassable 2001: A Space Odyssey, but which remains one of the best realistic science fiction films yet made. MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)
- unsurpassable skill
- His steadfast belief in an unsurpassable standard of excellence echoes the æsthetic by which he lives.
- If the modernist box remains the default form, unsurpassable for its elegance and adaptability, it has also been the spur to some amazingly bold escapes from that orthodoxy.
- For sheer ecstasy of flunkeydom "Jenkins" was unsurpassed and unsurpassable, but at least he was capable of recognizing native talent, as may be gleaned from his notice of Semiramide in English in the winter of 1842: -- Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857