unanswerable
Example Sentences
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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
This, Raymie knew, was another impossible, unanswerable adult question.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
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