unanswerable
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
I’ll let you in on another bit of digital journalism that always holds true: Questions explored in commentaries are either unanswerable or the answer is “no.”
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
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
Robert Serber, who had carried Berkeley’s proposal to the GAC, had to acknowledge that Fermi had posed “the obvious question,” and that it was unanswerable.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
