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incommunicative

[in-kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-tiv, -kay-] / ˌɪn kəˈmju nɪ kə tɪv, -ˌkeɪ- /


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But he was able to communicate with Willis about getting the beloved series to viewers “before the disease rendered him as incommunicative as he is now.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

"News of the World," therefore, becomes an adventure featuring a grizzled older man and a young incommunicative child.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2020

Some parents say the camp has been incommunicative with them as the outbreak spread.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2020

They were both at a late-night dinner in Rome in May, but Osaka said she was tired and incommunicative that time.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2018

What keeps me incommunicative, however, is not indifference, but almost a kind of suspense, a fear to break—by speaking—the spell of some other spectacle—other than that of my own fonctionnement.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James




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