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
But this is not the case with ICE agents, who are completely unaccountable and totally out of control.
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Dave Min, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
Cruel and unaccountable events pile up, overwhelming any sense of normality.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
Detractors are concerned that an unelected, unaccountable man holds so much power and is disrupting the federal government mightily from seeking to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to defunding the U.S. Department of Education.
—David Plazas, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Worse, school choice can become an excuse for policymakers to skirt hard and immediately needed conversations about an ineffective public-school curriculum, classrooms that have morphed into screen zombies, or unaccountable teacher and student performance.
—Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 18 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for unaccountable
Dave Min, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
Cruel and unaccountable events pile up, overwhelming any sense of normality.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
Detractors are concerned that an unelected, unaccountable man holds so much power and is disrupting the federal government mightily from seeking to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to defunding the U.S. Department of Education.
—David Plazas, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Worse, school choice can become an excuse for policymakers to skirt hard and immediately needed conversations about an ineffective public-school curriculum, classrooms that have morphed into screen zombies, or unaccountable teacher and student performance.
—Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaccountable
Adjective
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Markle pops up in the first two episodes of Fringe's second season as junior FBI agent Amy Jessup, who briefly joins the Fringe Division while investigating an unexplainable NYC crash.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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The reason the earth is rotating faster on these three days in 2025 is unexplainable, leading authority on Earth rotation Leonid Zotov told Time and Date.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Our worries are often dismissed as irrational—planes are much safer than cars, etc.—
Elaine Godfrey,
The Atlantic,
6 Aug. 2025
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Nothing adds depth to an irascible curmudgeon quite like an irrational love of pets that do not love you back.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The decline, across the board, was almost inexplicable last season.—
Sam Blum,
New York Times,
29 July 2025
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The idea that this is how someone responds to pretty basic requests is sort of inexplicable.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
21 July 2025
Adjective
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The policy and specialist support environment is going to need to become more sophisticated, and more responsive to balancing needs and addressing conflict, unfairness and unreasonable requests / restrictions.—
Nancy Doyle,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina who studies organisms and ecosystems in radioactive regions, told the Times that the DOE's explanation that the wasps gathered legacy contamination for their homes is not unreasonable.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Unaccountable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaccountable. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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