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unwinnable

/ ʌˈɪəə /

adjective

  1. not able to be won or achieved
  2. (of a seat in an election) not able to be taken from the incumbent or the incumbent's party
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Ukraine war has now shown itself to be almost certainly unwinnable, at least for Ukraine.

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Herein lies the controversy: Those campaign stalwarts found that, by and large, they did a great job on Harris’ campaign, that the race was basically unwinnable, that frustrated Democratic voters—who can’t believe that they got swept by the least popular president in American history—are being unfair and uncharitable to the strategists’ efforts in what was a very compressed campaign season.

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That was then, at the height of the controversial war in Vietnam, when the question was who bore responsibility for speaking truth to power, for holding to task those responsible for prosecuting such an undeclared, unpopular and unwinnable war.

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If Harris wins two of those three, Democrats will begin celebrating, and Trump’s team will begin filing unwinnable lawsuits and staging potentially ugly protests.

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A war with the U.S. — or Israel — would be unwinnable, experts say.

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