unknowable
Example Sentences
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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
How much this expertise actually influences the agency’s final decisions is unknowable from the outside.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
The writing is terrifically funny and also grounded, anecdotes filled with slapstick but no punchlines, befitting a story that includes hookups, weddings, children, a funeral and an unknowable future.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 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
Well, thought Ishmael, bending over his typewriter, his fingertips poised just above the keys: the palpitations of Kabuo Miyamoto’s heart were unknowable finally.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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