unknowable
Example Sentences
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Your greatest retirement risk may be something that’s unknowable: how long you will live.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026
As he explains to Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, A.I. is a hyperobject that touches everything in unknowable ways.
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2026
The writing is terrifically funny and also grounded, anecdotes filled with slapstick but no punchlines, befitting a story that includes hookups, weddings, children, a funeral and an unknowable future.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026
The river, at times hauntingly beautiful and others murky and unknowable, offers a mirror to Daniel's torment, and to the increasingly fragile hope of his wife, Agnieszka, that Chris will one day come home.
From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026
The gathering would happen, to an unknowable outcome.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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