inscrutable
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In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Telecasts became crowded with inscrutable advanced metrics and probabilities.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
Melania, the documentary about the First Lady, is a lot like its subject: extremely expensive and fundamentally inscrutable.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026
Pegula described the inscrutable Rybakina as "cool as a cucumber".
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
Neither of them had ever looked more inscrutable.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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