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Recent Examples of unsearchable
All that stuff is unsearchable in a way that someone could refer to in any real academic sense.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
The message disappears into an unsearchable thread or gets lost entirely due to chat retention policies.
—Sarah Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
His understanding is unsearchable.
—John Biggs, Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2025
Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror, former rival of the Daily News, is also unsearchable.
—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
Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
The message disappears into an unsearchable thread or gets lost entirely due to chat retention policies.
—Sarah Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
His understanding is unsearchable.
—John Biggs, Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2025
Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror, former rival of the Daily News, is also unsearchable.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsearchable
Adjective
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The unavoidable comparison here is with Pelé, sporting excellence personified but also inscrutable, even a little remote.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Some of these attacks come from the left, or from people with inscrutable worldviews.—
Juliette Kayyem,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Europeans, Bennett notes, find this genuinely incomprehensible.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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Ashly's death is an incomprehensible tragedy.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
6 May 2026
Adjective
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Chess can seem abstruse and forbidding to the uninitiated, but Himelfarb’s account of it is as readable and comprehensible as any more familiar sports story—or, for that matter, any narrative in which a bunch of ambitious people pursue a single goal.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Pitching a book as abstruse as Your Name Here as a kind of cash grab is the novel’s wry joke.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Laurie joins an ensemble cast including Matthew Macfadyen as legendary spymaster George Smiley, Dan Stevens as the enigmatic Bill Haydon, All Quiet on the Western Front’s Felix Kammerer as Hans-Dieter Mundt and Agnes O’Casey, who reprises her Spy Who Came In From The Cold West End role of Liz Gold.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
4 June 2026
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The enigmatic Dr Hill, played again by Peter Stormare will return for the game.—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
3 June 2026
Adjective
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The 20-year-old has struck out 32 batters in 18 2/3 innings — an almost unfathomable rate.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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This is not like building to be able to compete with the relentless depth of the Thunder or the unfathomable length of Victor Wembanyama and youth of the Spurs.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
30 May 2026
Adjective
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Helen Mirren, Russell Crowe, Scott Eastwood, and Gore Verbinsky are among top talents set to attend Italy’s upcoming Taormina Film Festival that has unveiled the lineup for its upcoming 72nd edition that will mix crowdpleasers with more esoteric quality fare.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
4 June 2026
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The menu is sprawling and eclectic, teeming with esoteric functional ingredients.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
Adjective
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Death penalty states generally allow last statements from the execution chamber, but Texas catalogs the prisoners’ last words online, except for vulgar and racist language or what sounds unintelligible.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
20 May 2026
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The man responded, but his words are unintelligible in the recording.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
20 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unsearchable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsearchable. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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