describable

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“The tragedy of our poor wounded here in America is not describable without shedding tears, and those left behind with the enemy have no aid.”

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

“We started to walk around and it was extremely sad, it was not describable the devastation and the sound of the explosion,” he said.

From Reuters • Aug. 5, 2020

Dr. Garibaldi recommended a few resources to learn more about this idea, which is sometimes called something like describable or closed-form numbers.

From Scientific American • Jan. 12, 2019

Those injuries and related damages are readily apparent and describable.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2018

Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos