unanswerable

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Instead, the team broke down their unanswerable question—will the breeding program work—into four smaller, more tractable assumptions:

From Slate • Apr. 28, 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

To bring the most unserious of serious topics to life, BBC Sport recently asked about 250 of its staff across the UK to take on the unanswerable question.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025

And the unanswerable question that I have is, OK, if you make that critique, where does the loss of perspective come in?

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2025

Every couple of days he’ll startle the directress with some unanswerable query: “Why do we get hiccups, Frau Elena?”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr