unintelligibility

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Recent Examples of unintelligibility Patches of unintelligibility are nothing new in Pynchon, but usually a coherent world view gleams upward from the murk. Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • One cultural role of child stars, after all, is to embody for their moment the ambiguities of approaching adolescence.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There was less ambiguity in Minnesota; Rodgers was signed with the clear intention to start.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The vagueness extends to the season’s perspective on Judaism, which is simultaneously more and less.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • As in Bennett’s other works, vagueness manifests in the book’s sentences, which have a habit of interrupting themselves, thoughts popping in and out with the regularity of a real-life interior monologue.
    Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Unintelligibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintelligibility. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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