incomprehensible

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Berkshire employs no complex and incomprehensible compensation formulas for executives.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Back in the spring, he says, "a hamburger cost 5m rials. It is now 12m. The numbers are just incomprehensible".

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Appalled by the incomprehensible waste—Hiroshima was still weeks away—he searched for precedent in myth and antiquity, alighting at once on the North African city of Carthage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

As both the new “Vanderpump” and the still-shuttered “RHONY” suggest, viewers don’t come to Bravo’s programming for character archetypes and pervasive yet incomprehensible “drama.”

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025

On the field, his toughness was almost incomprehensible; his head, as one teammate put it, seemed to be “made of steel.”

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger