unanswerable

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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

But the perpetually unanswerable question is whether they will be up to whatever comes next.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025

There’s no shortage of stories to tell, or unanswerable questions to ask.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2024

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