as in inscrutable
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Recent Examples of unsearchable
Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror, former rival of the Daily News, is also unsearchable.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
Amid outcry from Swift’s fans on social media, lawmakers and the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, X made the Grammy winner’s name unsearchable on its platform over the weekend.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Taylor Swift became unsearchable on X, just days after deepfake images of her in pornographic and violent situations went viral.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024
All the work Suffolk detectives had done on the case was unsearchable — accessible only to a few detectives who were relying on their own limited memories of the case.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
A week after topping Apple’s iTunes chart, popular versions of a Hong Kong protest anthem are unsearchable on the platform, as the government tries to outlaw the song in the city’s courts.
—Kari Lindberg, Fortune, 14 June 2023
The process is a logistical nightmare that often renders the applicant unsearchable online, to their personal and professional detriment.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 21 July 2022
On China’s Twitter -like Weibo platform, the hashtag #ZhuYiFellDown, which mocked the Olympic debut of Ms. Zhu and which had been viewed more than 200 million times, suddenly became unsearchable, apparently sometime late Sunday.
—Elaine Yu, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
Her post lasted 30 minutes on Weibo before it was censored, and her name rendered unsearchable.
—Rui Zhong, Wired, 5 Dec. 2021
Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
Amid outcry from Swift’s fans on social media, lawmakers and the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, X made the Grammy winner’s name unsearchable on its platform over the weekend.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Taylor Swift became unsearchable on X, just days after deepfake images of her in pornographic and violent situations went viral.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024
All the work Suffolk detectives had done on the case was unsearchable — accessible only to a few detectives who were relying on their own limited memories of the case.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
A week after topping Apple’s iTunes chart, popular versions of a Hong Kong protest anthem are unsearchable on the platform, as the government tries to outlaw the song in the city’s courts.
—Kari Lindberg, Fortune, 14 June 2023
The process is a logistical nightmare that often renders the applicant unsearchable online, to their personal and professional detriment.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 21 July 2022
On China’s Twitter -like Weibo platform, the hashtag #ZhuYiFellDown, which mocked the Olympic debut of Ms. Zhu and which had been viewed more than 200 million times, suddenly became unsearchable, apparently sometime late Sunday.
—Elaine Yu, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
Her post lasted 30 minutes on Weibo before it was censored, and her name rendered unsearchable.
—Rui Zhong, Wired, 5 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsearchable
Adjective
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From the outside, Didion seemed to be to be inscrutable, glamorous, insanely gifted and invulnerable.—
Leigh Haber,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Jackson-Cohen, Keene, and Hyland look glamorous in their ’30s period outfits as director Sam Yates zooms in on their inscrutable faces.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Nov. 2024
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In retrospect, the integer distance problem was waiting for mathematicians who were willing to consider more unruly curves than hyperbolas and then draw on recondite tools from algebraic geometry and number theory to tame them.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
1 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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Researching feels incomprehensible or inapplicable, especially as a business owner.—
Bree Manay,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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The answer may not be satisfying, but maybe that’s the point: the crime was always going to be incomprehensible.—
Bailey Seybolt,
People.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The result is a topsy-turvy movie that is also spiritually profound in ways that the Marvel and DC franchises don’t dare but that became abstruse and chaotic in Snyder’s many Rebel Moon iterations.—
Armond White,
National Review,
14 Mar. 2025
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However, at the OXY ARTS gallery in Los Angeles, that abstruse portrait of Sagittarius A* looks a little different.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Other notable roles for Chastain include playing astronaut Melissa Lewis in The Martian, the enigmatic Murph in Interstellar and real-life figure Molly Bloom in Molly’s Game.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
15 Apr. 2025
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These enigmatic paintings are inspired by Edvard Munch and William Blake: After Munch: Less is Known than People Think, 2023, and After Blake: Less is Known than People Think, 2024, in which astronomy, history and geography cross paths with spirituality, according to the artist.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Think of it as Bannon on the one side, versus Newt Gingrich, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist and others on the other — a debate that once seemed unfathomable for Republicans who have spent generations working to lower taxes and reduce the scope of the federal government.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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The overwhelming interest in last week’s classic car review was unfathomable.—
Marc D Grasso,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Advocating for biological men in women’s locker rooms, while rooted in inclusivity, often feels esoteric to the typical voter.—
Nafees Alam,
Twin Cities,
23 Apr. 2025
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Fertility data used to be a fairly esoteric concern.—
Noel King,
Vox,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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From our review: Khan’s lack of screen presence, toothless mixed martial arts sequences and unintelligible editing further knock the film down.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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The rest of the freestyle was unintelligible, and it was not shot well, either.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Unsearchable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsearchable. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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