inscrutable
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Telecasts became crowded with inscrutable advanced metrics and probabilities.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
Though the diary entry concedes that Mansfield was “so intelligent & inscrutable that she repays friendship,” the two women wouldn’t become friends.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Pegula described the inscrutable Rybakina as "cool as a cucumber".
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
Despite chronicling decades of István’s life, “Flesh,” through narrative omissions, leaves readers with an inscrutable protagonist they nonetheless remain deeply invested in.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025
The prophecy could have referred to either of them, yet, for his own inscrutable reasons, Voldemort had chosen to believe that Harry was the one meant.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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