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unanswerable

[uhn-an-ser-uh-buhl, -ahn-] / ʌnˈæn sər ə bəl, -ˈɑn- /










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Together was a creation of the young, with their devastating and unanswerable insight: “You’re leaving—we’re coming.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 11, 2025

Faced with this ludicrously broad question, Kahlil either ventured his best guess as to which group memberships are relevant, or, more likely, he simply answered “no” to this largely unanswerable question.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2025

The boy was sentenced to seven years in custody while the girl was given a three-year youth rehabilitation order and made subject to a six-month curfew, which Mrs Kohli said was "unanswerable".

From BBC Jun. 21, 2025

For director Alex Ross Perry, it boiled down to the admittedly unanswerable question of whether the band in its time could have been bigger than it was.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2025

And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and decide that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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