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

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

The question, unanswerable on its face, assumes special importance when national security is at stake.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2024

But in effect it was unanswerable even now, since the few scattered survivors from the ancient world were incapable of comparing one age with another.

From "1984" by George Orwell