unrecognizable

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Recent Examples of unrecognizable Injury or not, the sophomore quarterback is unrecognizable from his freshman self. Noah White, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025 But when Natalie wakes up one morning in 1805 — her husband replaced by a farmer, and her kids unrecognizable — she’s forced to confront the realities of truly living in the past, and find a way back home. Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025 When Helene tore through Western North Carolina, more than 100 people were killed, thousands lost their homes, and familiar roads and creeks became unrecognizable. Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2025 The website states that the body was located on Wednesday, October 4, 1978, and the remains were unrecognizable due to decomposition. Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 21 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unrecognizable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrecognizable
Adjective
  • Both white beans and chickpeas have neutral flavors that meld well with oats, and mashing them up beforehand will make their texture almost unnoticeable.
    Audrey Bruno, SELF, 25 Sep. 2025
  • For the most part, Toronto’s tweaks are unnoticeable.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the lead-up to the 2024 election, polling found that the agenda was widely unpopular among Americans.
    Connor Greene, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Across the Indian Ocean, in Kenya on Africa's east coast, massive Gen Z protests have been taking place since last year when thousands of people took to the streets to protest an unpopular finance bill.
    Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In Somebody Cares, Riley’s faceless body dominates, clad in black underwear.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The avatar looked like a semi-faceless character from the Just Dance video games, with pink hair and a bright skirt.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ninety minutes after the call ended, an anonymous X account began leaking details from the same secondhand report that had been included in the anonymous e-mail.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Can Wisconsin lottery winners remain anonymous?
    Steven Martinez, jsonline.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Stein’s early fiction was plainly written and unremarkable.
    Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Johansson’s direction is serviceable if unremarkable, and one has to wonder why this particular script spoke to her as a directorial debut.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Almost 90 percent of the world’s population is right-handed, a fact that goes unnoticed in most settings but makes a difference in baseball.
    Chad Jennings, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The unnamed child slips by unnoticed.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Buick is a great American premium car brand that has fallen on hard times in recent years, reduced to selling undistinguished SUVs in the U.S.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In 2014, the land beneath 100 West 57th sold to owners who seemed keen to take advantage of the block’s transformation from a somewhat undistinguished Midtown thoroughfare of souvenir shops and mid-tier buildings to Billionaire’s Row.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 23 July 2025

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“Unrecognizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrecognizable. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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