adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unbridgeable gap (= a gap that cannot be closed )
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He felt that there was an unbridgeable gap between the negotiating positions of the two sides.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gap
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Looking to the past, she seeks to illuminate the present, believing there to be no unbridgeable gap between the two.
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It appears, at times that there is an unbridgeable gap between what contemporary business uses and what the school does.
gulf
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It was an almost unbridgeable gulf .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide - and unbridgeable .
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For an impecunious woman of twenty-nine, the gulf was unbridgeable .
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Fundamental to Frege's whole approach is the assumption that there exists an unbridgeable logical gulf between concepts and objects.
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He drew an unbridgeable line between this élite and rank-and-file workers.
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It was an almost unbridgeable gulf.
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Looking to the past, she seeks to illuminate the present, believing there to be no unbridgeable gap between the two.
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The distance between them, he wrote, is not so much great as unbridgeable .
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The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference, rather than the similarity, between her situation and mine.