as in illegible
incapable of being read or deciphered
the old book contains an inscription, but the handwriting is cramped and unreadable
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Recent Examples of unreadable
Around him, others move through the wreckage, their expressions unreadable.
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Alaa Alqaisi
august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
Eventually, the new drive suffered water damage and became unreadable, even with advanced hardware tools.
—Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Unlike collars and tags, which can fall off or become unreadable, microchips are permanent and tamperproof.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
The par-save evoked a rare show of emotion from the typically unreadable American, who fist pumped the air before accompanying Li, chuckling incredulously, to the next tee.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 20 July 2025
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Alaa Alqaisi
august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
Eventually, the new drive suffered water damage and became unreadable, even with advanced hardware tools.
—Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Unlike collars and tags, which can fall off or become unreadable, microchips are permanent and tamperproof.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
The par-save evoked a rare show of emotion from the typically unreadable American, who fist pumped the air before accompanying Li, chuckling incredulously, to the next tee.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 20 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for unreadable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreadable
illegible
Adjective
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In 1494, for example, mathematician and ‘father of modern accounting’ Luca Pacioli wrote of Venetian merchants willfully rendering their ledgers illegible.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Wilson showed her a picture of their first tag, an illegible scrawl.—
Madeleine Wulfahrt,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Unreadable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreadable. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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