unknowable
Example Sentences
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Because private-credit loans don’t trade, their true value is unknowable until they mature or are sold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 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
At its best, it’s poetry trying to make sense of the unknowable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 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 hope that in this world, there are magical fish who will give you advice and warning, when really, the future is unknowable and infinitely dangerous.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.