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
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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.