undecipherable

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When you find an item, the usual text box identifying it may include a series of undecipherable characters.

From The Verge • Mar. 16, 2022

This sentence reads smoothly enough today, but back before March 2020, it would have been mostly undecipherable.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2021

The president attempted to answer a question about immigration, but the White House aides talked over his answer, rendering it undecipherable.

From Washington Times • Sep. 28, 2021

Guterson refuses “to intimate clarity where none indeed exists ….” Either way, this poem alludes to our fear of the undecipherable.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2019

The actual headstone was covered in green and yellow lichen, and so worn and faded as to almost be undecipherable, but the rubbing was clear.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman