ineffable
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"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
Its first was led, as if filled with some ineffable perfume, by Mira Nadon alongside Peter Walker, who deftly attended his counterpart.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
This trend is often blamed on an ineffable consumer preference, or Americans’ being fat, but that isn’t exactly true.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025
Despite Lawrence’s doubts, he exudes the ineffable sense of someone in deep communion with his faith.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025
For any number of reasons, concrete and ineffable, there was something about Katherine Goble that made her as comfortable in the office in 1244 as she was in the choir loft at Carver Presbyterian.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing ineffable
The Great Gatsby
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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