unanswerable
Example Sentences
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Duvall shades Sonny’s run from the law into a nuanced portrayal of wounded pride and unanswerable questions.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
Together was a creation of the young, with their devastating and unanswerable insight: “You’re leaving—we’re coming.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
Faced with this ludicrously broad question, Kahlil either ventured his best guess as to which group memberships are relevant, or, more likely, he simply answered “no” to this largely unanswerable question.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025
The boy was sentenced to seven years in custody while the girl was given a three-year youth rehabilitation order and made subject to a six-month curfew, which Mrs Kohli said was "unanswerable".
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025
Alas, we shall never know, and it is too late to go back and change things now, but pondering such deep and unanswerable questions is the job of philosophers—which brings us back to Mr. Hobbes.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
