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Recent Examples of unknowability
Instead, what makes the triptych of thematically connected snapshots memorable is its deftly unfussy observation of the unknowability that can endure among people who share the same bloodlines.
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
The unknowability of life is beautiful, but so too is our desire to know.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
The unknowability of life is beautiful, but so too is our desire to know.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknowability
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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
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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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That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
13 Sep. 2025
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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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The vagueness extends to the season’s perspective on Judaism, which is simultaneously more and less.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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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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Despite the political specificity of the family history unearthed here, the script presumes a level of profundity that’s just not there in the movie’s ponderous silences and woozy montages.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Sep. 2025
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Lockwood says she’s often asked about her ability to toggle literary voice on a dime, ricocheting, like an elementary school PhD candidate, between potty humor and profundity.—
Eric Olson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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Eliza Varadi, a pediatrician in South Carolina, told me that the murkiness around insurance coverage, coupled with lower demand, has prompted her practice to start ordering COVID vaccines just one box at a time—each a batch of 10 doses—to minimize the potential for loss.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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The vessel was operating in international waters but that added to the murkiness of the legal justification.—
Emily Goodin,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Bandmates Callum, Melusine and Al are mostly toiling in obscurity until a violent act at one of their gigs goes viral.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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As Hollywood has grown more outspoken in recent months about the situation in the Middle East, the challenges of convincing its distributors — the lifelines that can take movies from obscurity to national recognition — remain.—
Rebecca Keegan,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Unknowability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowability. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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