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unknowable

[uhn-noh-uh-buhl] / ʌnˈnoʊ ə bəl /




















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As he explains to Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, A.I. is a hyperobject that touches everything in unknowable ways.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 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

The answer is unknowable, which is one reason the image spoke to Mr. Gennari, a professor at the University of Vermont.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The big question is somewhat unknowable — 20% of what?

From MarketWatch • Oct. 29, 2025

There, for some unknowable reason, Everett twice etched the name Nemo—Latin for "nobody"—into the soft Navajo sandstone—and then vanished.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer