unstoppable

CEFRB1

/ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/

adjective

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
Their "greatly unstoppable fight" against the cause was a joke.
However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.

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In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.
1958 February 26, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88
However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.
2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2025
I'm so powerful / I don't need batteries to play / I'm so confident / Yeah, I'm unstoppable today
2016, Sia, Chris Braide, “Unstoppable”, in This Is Acting, performed by Sia
These trains were ordered years before the pandemic, commissioned to tackle a problem that has (for now) gone away. Passenger numbers are no longer increasing at an unstoppable rate, driven by rising central London employment. The extra capacity is not currently needed.
2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “SWR unveils £1bn 'Arterios' for the "heart of our network"”, in Rail, pages 26–27

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From un- + stoppable.