as in unexplainable
impossible to explain
the decorator's client has an unaccountable dislike for that color
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Recent Examples of unaccountable
At this point in its history, the theory goes, the United States requires a willful and largely unaccountable power to impose changes that leaders with more delicate sensibilities and procedural scruples cannot ever accomplish.
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Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
In a free society, the people who enforce the law should never be faceless or unaccountable.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Transparency And Governance Autonomous doesn’t mean unaccountable.
—Abakar Saidov, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Trump’s bombing campaign significantly dialed up the unaccountable military prerogatives of the American presidency.
—Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
In a free society, the people who enforce the law should never be faceless or unaccountable.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Transparency And Governance Autonomous doesn’t mean unaccountable.
—Abakar Saidov, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Trump’s bombing campaign significantly dialed up the unaccountable military prerogatives of the American presidency.
—Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unaccountable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaccountable
Adjective
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For Sturdevant, the ebbs and flows are unexplainable.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
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All seems well until Caitlyn starts to slowly lose her mind as strange, unexplainable things start to happen within her family.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This guy might be single-handedly responsible for generations of people having an irrational fear of clowns.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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The study, published on the research platform arXiv, found that once the models were allowed to vary their bets and set their own targets, irrational behavior surged — and bankruptcy became a common outcome.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Usually there is a predictable pattern to the flow of money bet on games around the world, and the people who spend all day monitoring the betting markets develop a feel for when that flow is doing something inexplicable.—
David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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Her initially inexplicable obsession sets the tone for Apple TV’s unusually humane conspiracy thriller.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Civil Code Section 4740 grandfathers rental prohibitions, while Section 4741 bans rental prohibitions and unreasonable restrictions.—
Kelly G. Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Nov. 2025
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But this is perhaps an artificial high tempo, dictated by an unreasonable number of substitutes.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Unaccountable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaccountable. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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