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unknowable

[uhn-noh-uh-buhl] / ʌnˈnoʊ ə bəl /




















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One of his colleagues' frustrations with him has always been that he seems unknowable.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

Again and again, the poems search for a “you,” often absent or dead, divine or unknowable.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

He isn’t unknowable at all—and it’s crucial to understand what led up to his greater project on the Supreme Court.

From Slate May 13, 2026

Your greatest retirement risk may be something that’s unknowable: how long you will live.

From MarketWatch Apr. 23, 2026

And the seventh face . . . the Stranger was neither male nor female, yet both, ever the outcast, the wanderer from far places, less and more than human, unknown and unknowable.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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