inscrutable
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Their paper, “The Empirically Inscrutable Climate-Economy Relationship,” starts from the most basic question in climate economics: Can researchers actually measure how climate affects the economy from the historical record?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Inscrutable, humorless, but just enough like Americans to feel like you’re not punching down — an uncanny-valley Borg version of ourselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2022
Inscrutable because, for one thing, it so often has to be explained afterward.
From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2020
Inscrutable trail signs, reporting apparently arbitrary distances to unknowable, ambiguous destinations, gave the impression of order while denying access to it.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
"Inscrutable are thy ways, oh, Fortune!" mused the captain.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
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