unknowable
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Again and again, the poems search for a “you,” often absent or dead, divine or unknowable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
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
Well, thought Ishmael, bending over his typewriter, his fingertips poised just above the keys: the palpitations of Kabuo Miyamoto’s heart were unknowable finally.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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