incomprehensible
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Ingrid Robeyns, a philosopher and economist, has written that the wealth of the world’s richest has soared so much it is nearly incomprehensible for laypeople to grasp.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
If we had, it might have come with a purposefully incomprehensible slogan, absent any sound or fury but definitely signifying nothing.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
Arthur is a creepy dude, a generic-looking cellphone store employee with an incomprehensible plan.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Berkshire employs no complex and incomprehensible compensation formulas for executives like most big companies that use things like “time-based awards” or “performance-based awards.”
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 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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