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
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
Astronumerologist Jesse Kalsi, author of “The Power of Home Numbers,” calls six and seven “a very unconventional energy” that is somewhat unknowable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
In that moment, the future—uncontainable by any Theorem mathematical or otherwise—stretched out before Colin: infinite and unknowable and beautiful.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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