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Recent Examples of incomprehensible Alex Hartman runs the meme page Nolita Dirtbag on Instagram, and tells Rolling Stone the nervous emotions around Mamdani’s win could be in part because of how utterly incomprehensible or cruel many of the Trump administration decisions seem to be. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025 In a brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible (BANI) world where change is the only constant, the leadership traits that once earned respect—tenacity, decisiveness and stoicism—are no longer enough. Arthi Rabikrisson, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 Each episode represents an hour in the staff’s frenetic, 15-hour day that culminates with a mass casualty shooting and an incomprehensible case of the measles involving an unvaccinated child. Lynette Rice, Deadline, 12 June 2025 All of us who loved her have had to find a way to make peace with her incomprehensible choice. Liz McNeil, People.com, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for incomprehensible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehensible
Adjective
  • As satire, Next to Heaven is unintelligible, as though someone is universalizing their own hangups and then skewering them for clout.
    Book Marks June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • Filled with uncanny creatures and unintelligible language, the book's inspiration came, Serafini muses, either from aliens, or his cat.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Scientists will use this data to study dark matter and dark energy, which make up most of the universe but remain mysterious.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
  • Modern courtship is already a nightmare, but director Christopher Landon (of Happy Death Day) ups the stakes when a woman (Meghann Fahy) receives a series of mysterious and threatening AirDrops during her date.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Future threats to Uruguayan waterfowl conservation notwithstanding, for our group of American bird hunters, another clear-cool afternoon proves ideal to visit the edge of a grove of eucalyptus, a favorite roost for nearly unfathomable numbers of doves.
    Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Here are the four teams that did the unfathomable and won on the road: Cavs over Warriors (2016): LeBron James had The Block, Kyrie Irving hit that go-ahead shot and Kevin Love had The Stop in a 93-89 win.
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • The identity of Jake's owner remains as mysterious as the robot's uncanny ability to flatter strangers.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • These technologies can imitate voices, faces and even emotional expressions with uncanny precision.
    Jennifer C. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • At first, users had to type to do things with files and programs, using esoteric commands to navigate up and down the directory structures that contained them.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 July 2025
  • After Congress reversed course on accountability in 2015, results for everyone got worse, even as progressive jurisdictions started adopting increasingly esoteric equity strategies.
    Matthew Yglesias, Boston Herald, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Riddle has done that in part by embracing the community that sees her as a way into a complicated and sometimes deliberately impenetrable sport.
    Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 10 July 2025
  • When selecting a provider, organizations should remember to look for one that offers robust data protection offerings that ensure the storage sets are impenetrable.
    Dave Friend, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Chartreuse Made by actual French monks based on a nearly 300-year-old secret recipe, this high-proof, kelly green spirit is a bit of an obscure flex.
    Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 July 2025
  • Outraged, Gauguin located an obscure French law that proved only children within a four-kilometre radius of a school were bound to attend.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • On Thursday, Bloom shared a series of cryptic quotes from Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung on Instagram.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 4 July 2025
  • The team also discovered two more new species: the cryptic Namib day gecko and the miniature Namib day gecko.
    Aspen Pflughoeft July 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025

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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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