ineffable
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Nonetheless, Simón stirs up the ineffable sadness that comes with wanting answers to the mysteries of your family — and then, like it or not, receiving them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
"We are grateful for her passion, her wit, her ineffable style, and all the summers she spent in the tent."
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
It’s a performance that requires O’Connor to hint at an ineffable void.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Then, after a short silence, the music resumed, but now with the addition of Mr. Muhly on prepared piano, lending ineffable poignancy to strains of unsentimental emotionalism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
To gain strength, the sun needed chalchihuatl—the mysterious, ineffable fluid of life-energy.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing ineffable
The Great Gatsby
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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