How to Use unanswerable in a Sentence
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The students asked a lot of questions, some of them unanswerable.
—Sun Sentinel Staff Reports, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2018
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And, just as haunting, just as unanswerable, why did her career stall?
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
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Where will that leave us – with more unanswered or unanswerable questions.
—Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 2 June 2021
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Without those kinds of talks your brain is left to circle its own drain with unanswerable questions.
—Hazlitt, 1 Feb. 2023
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Those are just some of the many unanswerable questions that put the Tigers at crossroads.
—Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2020
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To some degree, of course, those questions are unanswerable, and even beside the point.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
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There’s no shortage of stories to tell, or unanswerable questions to ask.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
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There are still many questions, most of which are probably unanswerable.
—J. Brady McCollough Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
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That will depend on the simple but unanswerable question of when people will be ready to fly again.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Oct. 2020
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How crypto behaves as a result is an unanswerable question at this point.
—Declan Harty, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022
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In the meantime, we are left to ponder a suite of largely unanswerable questions.
—Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
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In theory, the question of what to wear to work shouldn’t pose an unanswerable dilemma.
—Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2020
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That the question is unanswerable has never stopped the heartsick from picking it over.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
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Now, like everything else in the world, the protests face the unanswerable question of what happens next.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
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This Is Why asks a lot of questions, often unanswerable ones.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
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These and other unanswerable questions are broached in this sparse yet diverting show.
—Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 23 Jan. 2018
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What Zhang could, would, or might do in the future is a rabbit hole of what-ifs and unanswerable questions.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
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For days, the memorial has served as a refuge for those without answers to so many unanswerable questions.
—Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2021
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Odell’s friends have been wrestling with the unanswerable question of whether something could have gone differently.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 23 Mar. 2022
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The question is not unanswerable; the answer is just difficult to accept.
—Maureen Condic, National Review, 8 Jan. 2023
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Huddling in a closet with their two little boys, the couple survived the storm and now face unanswerable questions.
—Austyn Gaffney, Antonio Olivo and Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2021
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Song has created a poignant meditation on love, fate, and the unanswerable question of what could have been.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
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These unanswerable questions tap into some of our most fundamental fears.
—Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
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Following the event, the memorial served as a refuge for those without answers to so many unanswerable questions.
—Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2021
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That question is unanswerable until after this season — Watson’s fourth in the league.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
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Throwing up your hands and concluding that the question of the meaning of life is simply unanswerable—by you, at least—is the easy response.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2021
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Just how much time is the as yet unanswerable question looming over the Clippers’ upcoming season.
—Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
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Modernity did not, Wang argues, present them with an unanswerable challenge, setting up a clash between the old and the new.
—Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
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What Constable would have made of a New York City space is in a sense an unanswerable question.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
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Those young adults and teenagers, even middle schoolers, from Madison who killed themselves in the past few years have left behind unanswerable questions.
—Author: Juliet MacUr, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2018
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