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incomprehensible

[in-kom-pri-hen-suh-buhl, in-kom-] / ˌɪn kɒm prɪˈhɛn sə bəl, ɪnˌkɒm- /


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"Then immediately, while we all feel that deeply, we've got to then be thinking of Noah's family for whom it is incomprehensible."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The signals between you and the other players can be incomprehensible to those of us listening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Uefa said the decision had "crossed a red line", labelling it "unprecedented, incomprehensible, and unjustifiable", while the Norwegian Football Federation is considering filing a formal complaint to Fifa's ethics committee.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Uefa had criticised Fifa's decision at the time, calling it "unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable".

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The importance of diffusion, and of geographic location in making it possible, is strikingly illustrated by some otherwise incomprehensible cases of societies that abandoned powerful technologies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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