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Recent Examples of inscrutable The explanations from the front office are sometimes the most inscrutable part. Levi Weaver, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 Convincingly portraying a woman who regains her dignity in her quest to follow in her father’s footsteps, Hart’s performance of inscrutable sacrifice balances a regal confidence with the uneasiness of someone in perpetual survival mode. Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025 True, this would turn programs into inscrutable black boxes, but they could still be divided into modular testable units for sanity and quality checks. Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025 And this one cast an even lower, closer shadow — rendering her expressions even more inscrutable — than any before it. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inscrutable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inscrutable
Adjective
  • George MacKay and Callum Turner star in the eerie drama, playing fishermen in a remote village in Cornwall who board a mysterious ship that appears to be caught in a time loop.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • God, or the Universe, works in mysterious ways.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Maybe the purposefully ambiguous coda was concocted to prove some sort of Rashomon-style truth-is-subjective point.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • While the unfinished project remains ambiguous, the viewer catches glimpses of what the plot might have been about, where Jiang's character has grown from a wandering youth to a wealthy entrepreneur.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • What role did the infamous and cryptic Bob Gray play in the story?
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Weeks before the actress officially filed for divorce, Kidman subtly alluded in a Vogue interview to what appeared to be a cryptic preview of the split.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The obscure defensive lineman spent the first month of the season on the shelf, but after returning for the 27-24 comeback win over the Miami Dolphins, the former Alabama standout is expected to be a healthy presence in the trenches for the Carolina Panthers.
    Mike Kaye October 9, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of invoking the Act, the White House is using Section 12-406 of Title 10, an obscure provision of federal law, to claim authority to bring in National Guard troops, NPR's Jaclyn Diaz tells Up First.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And with a new and enigmatic Duke at the helm, Tintagel is also facing an uncertain future.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Though the television show portrays Gein as a character so eccentric that townspeople don't feel comfortable sharing a nearby seat with him at the local diner, Gein was enigmatic but trustworthy to the locals in his younger years.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Sigmund Freud defines the uncanny as the nagging presence of the familiar within the strange, the strange within the familiar.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • These are essentially gothic works, in which bleary, nocturnal isolation opens a door to bizarre impulses and uncanny transformations.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Smithsonian Institution, which includes all the Smithsonian museums, plans to go dark after Saturday if the government shutdown continues beyond then, according to its website.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Polselli brings a painterly gaze to scenes of quiet dread, such as a figure gradually appearing out of thick brush as two women make their way home through dark woods.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This was the danger Madison considered — that mystic memory would falsely elevate the Constitution.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Despite some promising high-concept notions such as an intergalactic federation, mystic beings, parasitic species, a sentient interstellar craft, and Slipstream FTL quantum mechanics, seemingly inevitable creative differences arose as the show progressed.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Inscrutable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inscrutable. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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