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unknowable

[uhn-noh-uh-buhl] / ʌnˈnoʊ ə bəl /




















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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