unknowable
Example Sentences
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At its best, it’s poetry trying to make sense of the unknowable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
Gianrico Farrugia, Mayo’s chief executive, acknowledges the risks of lurching into an unknowable future, but tells the author that “the risk of not going fast enough is far greater at this point.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 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 big question is somewhat unknowable — 20% of what?
From MarketWatch • Oct. 29, 2025
The nuns I’d had in grades one and two were mysterious, unknowable, but Mr. French was a civilian.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
