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The movie imagines a worst-case scenario in which American society unravels beyond comprehension, and centers the frontline journalists trying to make sense of the ensuing chaos.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024
Swift traffics in numbers beyond comprehension – a tour that generates $1 billion in domestic ticket sales, a clean sweep of Billboard’s Top 5, a 10-minute song topping the chart in an era of TikTok attention spans – but her greatest feat may arrive on Super Bowl Sunday.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
How that's possible in Miami where, if memory serves, one parties in the city where the heat is on, all night, on the beach till the break of dawn, is beyond comprehension, but Diddy complies and turns his music down.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023
Going from the last player picked in the draft to MVP in 2 seasons is almost beyond comprehension.
—Leonard Armato, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
Causes for Despair The human suffering that the people of Gaza have endured in the past three weeks is beyond comprehension.
—The New York Review of Books, 29 Oct. 2023
The true billionaires, rich beyond comprehension, hardly need to flaunt their affluence; Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, for example, seem more devoted to amassing power than to amassing stuff.
—Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Eyes stretched wide, jaws in freefall, hands glued to skulls as if all had starred into the eyes of Medusa at the exact nanosecond something beyond comprehension occurred.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
Ohio State mathematician Harvey Friedman came up with a way to determine how many mathematical symbols—think exponents, arrows, subscripts, etc.—would be needed to prove TREE(3) is finite, but even that number is virtually beyond comprehension.
—Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024
Swift traffics in numbers beyond comprehension – a tour that generates $1 billion in domestic ticket sales, a clean sweep of Billboard’s Top 5, a 10-minute song topping the chart in an era of TikTok attention spans – but her greatest feat may arrive on Super Bowl Sunday.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
How that's possible in Miami where, if memory serves, one parties in the city where the heat is on, all night, on the beach till the break of dawn, is beyond comprehension, but Diddy complies and turns his music down.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023
Going from the last player picked in the draft to MVP in 2 seasons is almost beyond comprehension.
—Leonard Armato, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
Causes for Despair The human suffering that the people of Gaza have endured in the past three weeks is beyond comprehension.
—The New York Review of Books, 29 Oct. 2023
The true billionaires, rich beyond comprehension, hardly need to flaunt their affluence; Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, for example, seem more devoted to amassing power than to amassing stuff.
—Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Eyes stretched wide, jaws in freefall, hands glued to skulls as if all had starred into the eyes of Medusa at the exact nanosecond something beyond comprehension occurred.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
Ohio State mathematician Harvey Friedman came up with a way to determine how many mathematical symbols—think exponents, arrows, subscripts, etc.—would be needed to prove TREE(3) is finite, but even that number is virtually beyond comprehension.
—Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
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“Beyond comprehension.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beyond%20comprehension. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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