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impossible dream

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meanings of impossibleand dream


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impossible
adjective
uk /ɪmˈpɒs.ə.bəl/ us /ɪmˈpɑː.sə.bəl/
If an action or event is impossible, it cannot happen or ...
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dream
noun[C]
uk /driːm/ us /driːm/
a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you ...
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Examples of impossible dream


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There is no reason to think that attempting to live an impossibledream will produce more good than any other course of action.
It would be as reductive to interpret this attitude as the expression of an impossibledream.
It requires a change of attitude, but it is not an impossibledream.
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There are men there who have achieved what only a very few years ago seemed an impossibledream.
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However, that was then widely seen as an impossibledream.
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The cultural revolution that is required in the spreading of scientific literacy is not an impossibledream.
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The impossibledream has become the commonplace reality as day follows day.
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Fifteen years ago, early in 1989, this would have looked like an impossibledream, but it has come true: what a wonderful moment.
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As a result, home ownership has become an impossibledream for many and an impossible nightmare for many more.
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Given the potency of modern drugs, wherein lies their efficacy, that is an impossibledream.
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Our discounts will bring home ownership within the reach of many for whom it would otherwise remain an impossibledream.
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It fell to 20th-century engineers, however, to turn that impossibledream into reality, and shatter for ever any imagined boundaries to human endeavour.
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It may be comforting to dream the impossibledream, but we have to live in a world of reality.
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It is that desperation which has made home ownership an impossibledream for some and an impossible nightmare for many more.
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The idea of living in splendid isolation is an impossibledream.
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Having one's own bathroom is an impossibledream to ordinary folks like me.
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The bottom line is that an impossibledream is being created.
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The dream of a free market economy that would give everyone the best of all possible worlds is an impossibledream.
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Inch by inch, we move forward and the impossibledream of a few years ago moves closer to becoming a practical reality.
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