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unknowable

[uhn-noh-uh-buhl] / ʌnˈnoʊ ə bəl /




















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He isn’t unknowable at all—and it’s crucial to understand what led up to his greater project on the Supreme Court.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

Your greatest retirement risk may be something that’s unknowable: how long you will live.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

At its best, it’s poetry trying to make sense of the unknowable.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

The river, at times hauntingly beautiful and others murky and unknowable, offers a mirror to Daniel's torment, and to the increasingly fragile hope of his wife, Agnieszka, that Chris will one day come home.

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

And the seventh face . . . the Stranger was neither male nor female, yet both, ever the outcast, the wanderer from far places, less and more than human, unknown and unknowable.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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