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Recent Examples of inexpressible Lana’s murder at 40 fills me with an inexpressible grief because in many ways, my 40th year was when my own life began. Meg Pillow july 31, Literary Hub, 31 July 2025 Saunders, who wanted to be recognized not only as a Black artist but as an American artist, believed art was a way of expressing the otherwise inexpressible. News Desk, Artforum, 30 July 2025 Another thing that has stayed the same, much to fans’ emotional detriment, is Wiegman’s preference to make substitutions as late as feasibly possible, yet all the while begetting the same inexpressible result. Megan Feringa, New York Times, 27 July 2025 Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets. Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inexpressible
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Adjective
  • Twenty years later, Jim Montgomery, goalkeeper for Second Division underdogs Sunderland, would pull off an incredible double save to deny Leeds United in an upset so huge rival fans became even more desperate to see their own heroes do similar at the 100,000-capacity national stadium.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This is a big-screen beast with incredible internals that rival those of desktops in the same price range, including a massive 64GB of LPDDR5 RAM, an ultra-powerful RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, and more.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The smell after a rain is indescribable.
    Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The scene was terrible, indescribable, a tragedy.
    Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That ineffable charge continued to feel palpable as the lights went down and a thunderous roar went up.
    Sophie Williams, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Every man will seek with ineffable ardour the good of all.
    Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • As the series suggests, as a society, we are obsessed with rehashing the unspeakable.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There’s an unspeakable political situation, work work work, the constant need of wiping of things, the siren call of a gazillion gaudy facets of the internet.
    Kate Colby October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Two high voices — LACO features soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor John Holiday — intertwine with the orchestra turning this hymn to the Virgin Mary’s suffering into unutterable sweetness and treating death as life’s engenderment.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.
    Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
Adjective
  • And nothing is more isolating, more incommunicable, than the grief of a parent who has been unable to save their child’s life.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • In a way, Tiffany’s rendering of fandom as specific and incommunicable risks undermining her premise, which has to do with the massed power of people online.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 June 2022
Adjective
  • For all Sacks’ efforts to remain an indefinable cult figure outside the mainstream, he has lately been caught in Hollywood’s tractor beam, with several film scripts in advanced stages of development.
    Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This East Coast city earns high marks year after year for its various dining options, museums, and the indefinable, electric energy of the city that never sleeps.
    Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • And above all, Daniel Craig‘s Benoit Blanc is back to get to the bottom of another seemingly unexplainable murder mystery.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The nature of the evil that brought darkness and death into that Catholic church this week is unexplainable.
    Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Inexpressible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexpressible. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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