What's the difference between invincibility and unbeatability?
Invincibility
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study released in August by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund came to the rather interesting conclusion that if the so-called invincibles shun the new law, it will be because the plans cost more than they think they can afford and not because they feel that they are above needing healthcare coverage.
(2) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(3) She argued that in fracturing the myth of American invincibility, the attacks also indirectly prompted a resurgence in patriarchal ideals, and a return to old-fashioned perceptions of gender.
(4) In fact, the government itself had become bedazzled by the seemingly invincible rise in stock prices.
(5) The Last Stand to Reason takes place on a train called the Stanton Bullet, with a teenage boy government-engineered to be invincible, a criminal mastermind lost inside his own disguises, and an unidentified "small thing" forever threatened with defenestration.
(6) For it gives the impression that we don't care about our freedom and that as long as we believe we are safe from terrorists, the government can do what the hell it likes with our information, even if that means building an invincible political power over trade unions, dissenting minorities, legitimate protesters, environmental activists, Her Majesty's opposition... you name it!
(7) The project’s co-director Max Wakefield says: “By helping people create tangible relationships with energy, we can enable an understanding of the need to reduce demand.” Despite the private tech industry’s seeming invincibility in many areas of consumer life, from copyright to privacy , there are cracks in the facade .
(8) I don’t like this term ‘strong female characters’ because that implies if a woman is gonna be in a comedy she’s gotta be tough and invincible and not vulnerable and to act more like a man.
(9) It was a symbolic blow for a Democratic party (PD) that had been riding high since its unprecedented victory in the European elections last month, and came as a reminder that, even with the 41% his party won in that poll, 39-year-old prime minister Matteo Renzi is far from invincible.
(10) In what role I don’t know, that is what he has to think about: what direction he wants to give to his next life.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arsène Wenger says Thierry Henry will certainly have a role at Arsenal Henry joined the Red Bulls in 2010 following a successful playing career in Europe, where he was an integral part of Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ title-winning side of 2003-04, and also went on to win the 2009 Champions League with Barcelona.
(11) While until recently the greycoats looked invincible everywhere, in around 20 years the frontier has shifted 100km to the east .
(13) Life is so precious and we all believe we're invincible, but I know what's happening to my body.
(14) One theory aired in Russian media in recent days is that Nemtsov’s murder has led to a standoff between two powerful groups in the Russian elite: Kadyrov and his clan, who have always had Putin’s personal backing, and top security officials who have been genuinely investigating the murder and are determined to test Kadyrov’s apparent invincibility.
(15) But that does not render it invincible.” “As an initial matter, we do not give superduper protection to decisions that do not actually interpret a statute.” “The court calls this a ‘superpowered form of stare decisis ’ that renders statutory interpretation decisions nearly impervious to challenge,” he wrote in the dissent.
(16) A collection of individuals who couldn’t win a football match for love nor money a year ago have turned into an invincible force.
(17) We are spreading your words to the four corners of the earth, to remind the enemies of free speech that an invisible and invincible army is on its way, using words to tear down every one of the barriers keeping mankind from progress.
(18) With his team stripped of their invincibles label Mourinho was reduced to muttering about a Tyneside time-wasting conspiracy but no one should take any notice.
(19) Ethnopharmacologic inquiry is most invincibly pursued by addressing "medicinals" across the divers contexts through which populations gain exposure to the material of their pharmacopoeia.
(20) This - together with other discoveries, such as the fact that the invincible German war economy had been thoroughly badly run, with minimal use of female labour, and more than a million domestic servants in the country as late as September 1944 - induced in Galbraith a permanent scepticism about what he later came to term "the conventional wisdom".
Unbeatability
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We went through a run of results where we were almost unbeatable but since then we have tailed off a bit.
(2) More important than that in a short series they had an almost unbeatable trio in probable Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, a quality starter having his best season in Anibal Sanchez and Justin Verlander-In-A-Down-Year (which is still pretty good).
(3) Tancock is all but unbeatable over a single length, but has never been as strong over double the distance.
(4) Miami fans were exiting American Airlines Arena, the yellow rope was already up , and b'ball fans thought they were about to witness the San Antonio Spurs win their fifth NBA Championship by knocking out a Miami Heat team that was almost unbeatable during the regular season .
(5) Given the fallout from the Brexit vote, this was a competitive category this year, but Perloff’s rant about business rates is unbeatable.
(6) Dave Forsey, chief executive, said: "Despite tougher comparisons during the period, Sports Retail continues to perform well driven by our on-going focus on exceptional quality, unbeatable value and availability.
(7) I tried not to think the Kenyans were unbeatable, just gave it my all and as I hit the bell, [I thought], ‘Don’t regret this last lap.’” The field events were delayed by 20 minutes because of the heavy rain that flooded the runways and the women’s pole vault in particular veered dangerously close to farce.
(8) The Conservative party is neither strong nor unbeatable.
(9) These prices would be good value for a pretty ordinary B&B in a regional town – for chic digs in London, where you can easily pay £100 for access to a small dingy moth sanctuary, they’re basically unbeatable.
(10) Social atomisation may be the best sales strategy ever devised, and continuous marketing looks like an unbeatable programme for atomisation.
(11) As a Scot, maybe I've a bias towards the wildness and the colours of this landscape, but the beauty of the timeless West Highland coast on such a sun-drenched day is unbeatable.
(12) but became nearly unbeatable when he made his way back into the lineup.
(13) N’Golo Kanté is simply unbeatable in midfield and captain Wes Morgan has come on leaps and bounds too.
(14) One patient had unbeating nystagmus that diminished with upgaze, downgaze, or convergence.
(15) Caballero could not keep out Emre Can’s impudent little pitch-wedge to get the penalties underway but thereafter he was unbeatable, diving to his left to turn away a decent attempt by Lucas Leiva, a hesitant one from Philippe Coutinho, and then the other way to beat out Adam Lallana’s effort for his third successive save.
(16) The BBC boys are full of praise for Walker, with Terry Venables describing him as ‘unbeatable’.
(17) But cutting the price further this week, Tony Baines, managing director for corporate buying at Aldi, said: “In order to deliver outstanding quality at unbeatable prices, we have reduced the retail price of our Back to School uniform package from £4 to £3.69.” Lidl said its collection – comprising 41 separate items and including 100% cotton fabrics and leather shoes – could save British families with two children up to £2,854 over their entire primary school education.
(18) What a terrible indictment of a golfer who was once judged unbeatable on a Sunday afternoon.
(19) No matter who we’re playing, we play three in midfield – Drinkwater in the middle and Kanté either side,” explained the club’s chief scout, Steve Walsh, in a fairly unbeatable description that tells us all we need to know.
(20) If the lack of a hate figure was the gaping hole for the yes side, Nick Clegg provided an unbeatable one for the noes.