as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
an ineffable beauty descends upon the canyon as the sun begins to set
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It is seen as an ineffable sacred act that supersedes the other labor that attends it.
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Charlie Engman, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024
Furnishings, meanwhile, pull from the designer and dealer’s vast repository of personal treasures, with new purchases folded into the ineffable mix.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
Garth Greenwell’s latest novel finds the language to capture the ineffable human experience of serious illness.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024
For millennia, human beings have tried to impose their own order on the ineffable, not only through religion and other systems of knowledge but also through machines.
—Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
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Charlie Engman, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024
Furnishings, meanwhile, pull from the designer and dealer’s vast repository of personal treasures, with new purchases folded into the ineffable mix.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
Garth Greenwell’s latest novel finds the language to capture the ineffable human experience of serious illness.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024
For millennia, human beings have tried to impose their own order on the ineffable, not only through religion and other systems of knowledge but also through machines.
—Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
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“Ineffable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffable. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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