ineffably

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But I find it hard to conceive that the image her leadership so desperately courts—a renegade broadcast company, steelier, rawer, and ineffably realer than its competitors—will ever take hold.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026

Is this the definition of true luxury — things just being ineffably, subtly yet marvelously better than usual?

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023

And yet in these moments, for reasons as tough to articulate as they are to shake off, it feels ineffably, unmistakably ours.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2022

For Van Gogh, green wheat captured a sense of both transience and calm: “Young wheat can have something ineffably pure and gentle about it,” he wrote.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2022

Under the inmates’ surface bluster, their cruelty and selfishness, was almost always something ineffably sad.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover