"ungetroundable" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1868 August 8, “More about Cutting Fodder”, in Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, volume XIX, number 32, Rochester, N.Y., New York, N.Y., page 255:",
          "text": "If points cannot be maintained by unanswerable and ungetroundable arguments, then let all the puerile defections be fully unfolded to the scrutiny of the readers of the ubiquitous Rural.",
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          "ref": "1889 July 7, “Doings of Women Folks. Some Take to the Fields and Some Stay at Home. Effects of July Weather.”, in Democrat and Chronicle, volume 57, number 188, Rochester, N.Y., page 10:",
          "text": "The problem of earning their own living is one with which scores of thousands of women are brought to face every year, and being a very ugly, hard and ungetroundable problem, seen from squarely in front with the wolf snarling in the background, it is a matter of interest and congratulation to many women when one ingenious toiler contrives a new solution.",
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          "ref": "2002, Nouri Gana, “Toward an Exemplary Relationship between the Judge and the Literary Critic”, in Christopher Rollason, Rajeshwar Mittapalli, editors, Modern Criticism, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, →ISBN, pages 224 and 234:",
          "text": "Texts of law remain, writ large, as Hart rightfully argues, “open textured” not only because of our “relative ignorance of fact” but also because of our “relative indeterminacy of aim,” not only because of our inability to “regulate, unambiguously and in advance, some sphere of conduct by means of general standards to be used without further official direction on particular occasions,” but also because of the ungetroundable fact that “human legislators have no such knowledge of all the possible combinations of circumstances which the future may bring” (1961: 125).[…]In pursuance of this aim I have to expose inconsistencies and contradictions where they seem to me to be ungetroundable.",
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          "ref": "2011 December, Stephen Watt, “Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing”, in Notes and Queries, volume 256, number 4, Oxford University Press, →ISSN, page 625:",
          "text": "In a lazy simplification, Watt casts the Beckettian and the Troubles as ‘ungetroundable’ (a borrowed term from Muldoon’s criticism) facts, adhering to his subjects’ poetry.",
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          "ref": "2013, Stuart Sim, “Clifford Geertz (1926–2006)”, in Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides), Routledge, page 101:",
          "text": "He also acknowledged, however, that cultural anthropologists were as prone to bias as anyone else working in the field, referring to ‘the ungetroundable fact that all ethnographical descriptions are homemade, that they are the describers’ descriptions, not those of the described’ (Geertz 1988: 144–5).",
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        "Unavoidable; inevitable."
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          "ref": "1868 August 8, “More about Cutting Fodder”, in Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, volume XIX, number 32, Rochester, N.Y., New York, N.Y., page 255:",
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          "ref": "1889 July 7, “Doings of Women Folks. Some Take to the Fields and Some Stay at Home. Effects of July Weather.”, in Democrat and Chronicle, volume 57, number 188, Rochester, N.Y., page 10:",
          "text": "The problem of earning their own living is one with which scores of thousands of women are brought to face every year, and being a very ugly, hard and ungetroundable problem, seen from squarely in front with the wolf snarling in the background, it is a matter of interest and congratulation to many women when one ingenious toiler contrives a new solution.",
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          "ref": "2002, Nouri Gana, “Toward an Exemplary Relationship between the Judge and the Literary Critic”, in Christopher Rollason, Rajeshwar Mittapalli, editors, Modern Criticism, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, →ISBN, pages 224 and 234:",
          "text": "Texts of law remain, writ large, as Hart rightfully argues, “open textured” not only because of our “relative ignorance of fact” but also because of our “relative indeterminacy of aim,” not only because of our inability to “regulate, unambiguously and in advance, some sphere of conduct by means of general standards to be used without further official direction on particular occasions,” but also because of the ungetroundable fact that “human legislators have no such knowledge of all the possible combinations of circumstances which the future may bring” (1961: 125).[…]In pursuance of this aim I have to expose inconsistencies and contradictions where they seem to me to be ungetroundable.",
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          "text": "He also acknowledged, however, that cultural anthropologists were as prone to bias as anyone else working in the field, referring to ‘the ungetroundable fact that all ethnographical descriptions are homemade, that they are the describers’ descriptions, not those of the described’ (Geertz 1988: 144–5).",
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