as in impenetrability
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Noun
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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 -
This may be Riley’s attempt to portray the insularity and impenetrability of Ruth’s community, a faith so particular that even the reader is denied access to it.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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Whether or not Alice lived happily ever after, Gertrude seems to have done so, at least once her devils were banished by inscrutability.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Théodore Pellerin is a force of abstract inscrutability as Matthew, a character whose true motivations are always kept just out of frame.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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For the most part my efforts at sculpting a musical identity were fueled by an esotericism that disdained common and easily accessible genres.—
Justin E. H. Smith,
Harper's Magazine,
6 Sep. 2023
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None of this is a problem in and of itself, but a little esotericism goes a long way — and Gallardo isn’t exactly of the opinion that less is more in that department.—
Michael Nordine,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2022
Noun
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That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The vagueness and disorientation are plausibly by design, meant to evoke the fracturing of Lisa’s sanity, perhaps.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
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The vagueness of the language left plenty of room for interpretation and anxiety.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In a better world, novels of this level of sophistication, beauty, erudition, ambiguity, and play would come along more frequently and dominate the literary discourse.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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Any unexplained death leaves room for competing narratives, but Scott’s death involved a particularly vexing set of ambiguities.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Mendoza rose out of recruiting obscurity.—
Antonio Morales,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Their relative obscurity may have also been an advantage.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Unanswerability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unanswerability. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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