incomprehensible
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If we had, it might have come with a purposefully incomprehensible slogan, absent any sound or fury but definitely signifying nothing.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
Back in the spring, he says, "a hamburger cost 5m rials. It is now 12m. The numbers are just incomprehensible".
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
Appalled by the incomprehensible waste—Hiroshima was still weeks away—he searched for precedent in myth and antiquity, alighting at once on the North African city of Carthage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
Wingtech representatives responded that the Dutch intervention was "incomprehensible" and meant the row "degenerated needlessly".
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
I could show them the ansible, but it didn’t make a very convincing Alien Artifact, being so incomprehensible to fit in with hoax as well as with reality.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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