as in impenetrability
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Noun
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Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025 -
As a result, the impenetrability of EU bureaucracies will continue to limit the United States’ ability to restructure transatlantic economic relations.—
JENNIFER KAVANAGH,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Sep. 2025
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This was only the start of the incomprehensibility of this segment.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2026
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Duco negates the need for any human intervention by leveraging a hanging robotic system that automatically sketches multi-layered circuity to enable novel large-scale interfaces.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Oct. 2021
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Mazzone hopes that studying the neural circuity for coughing will eventually lead to new therapies.—
Sarah Zhang,
Discover Magazine,
11 Apr. 2012
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The students on campus, with little information and more than enough vagueness to envision the worst, did just that.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
9 May 2026
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Esenin-Volpin’s work was a call for a new kind of mathematics that could, in some sense, tolerate vagueness.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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The uncertainties that led to disquiet over nuclear power across the country in the 1970s and 1980s have not gone away but have changed as technology has evolved.—
Krisztian Elcsics,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
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Senate leadership was ousted just hours before Duterte’s impeachment trial moves to that chamber, creating political uncertainty and complications for the proceedings.—
Jim Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
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None of us can know the profoundness of their loss.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2026
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Unlike most Marvel movies that have the complexity of a shopping list, this film is refreshingly deeper and boasts rare transformative arcs for various characters — and not just the lead.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
6 May 2026
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According to May Bugenhagen, founder of Two Asian Matchmakers, this shift has introduced both opportunity and complexity.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
6 May 2026
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“Indirectness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indirectness. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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