unknowable
Example Sentences
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The answer is unknowable, which is one reason the image spoke to Mr. Gennari, a professor at the University of Vermont.
“They were asking me about the implications of something that’s unknowable because it’s without any precedent in our history.”
From Washington Post
The historians I read generally, though not unanimously, agreed that the true cause of the fire was unknown and probably unknowable.
From Washington Post
No matter how much we know about the facts of the 2003 invasion, Dr. Saunders said, “some of it will remain fundamentally unknowable.”
From New York Times
It’s that quality — fearless, untethered and unwilling to put down roots, let alone look for the ones that have already been pulled up — that makes her so beguiling and unknowable.
From Washington Post
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