incomprehensible
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"The sending of such graphic images and financial information to a grieving family who have already been through a very traumatic experience is incomprehensible," it concluded.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Uefa, Europe's football governing body, said the decision not to uphold Balogun's ban had "crossed a red line", branding it "unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Ingrid Robeyns, a philosopher and economist, has written that the wealth of the world’s richest has soared so much it is nearly incomprehensible for laypeople to grasp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
In writing about his discoveries Galileo was not obliged to write in a way that others found puzzling or incomprehensible: it was what he said that caused consternation, not how he said it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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