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Recent Examples of unsearchable
The message disappears into an unsearchable thread or gets lost entirely due to chat retention policies.
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Sarah Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 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
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
Sarah Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsearchable
Adjective
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The Buccaneers, however, tries to girly-pop-ify this deal and its setting in increasingly inscrutable and faux-feminist ways.—
Elle Carroll,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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Getting to the bottom of, say, the seed-oil controversy requires engaging with thorny scientific debates that reference inscrutable research papers; embracing the natural and ancestral by opting for tallow is an attractively simple-seeming alternative.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
11 Aug. 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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Some events, perhaps especially those that are morally incomprehensible, need to be wrestled with on a human level.—
Will Harris,
EW.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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Her scream resonated with the one in my chest while also being incomprehensible and beyond me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Also, his estimate arose from abstruse economic formulas and lots of magic asterisks.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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Into Breaking Its Own Rules To emphasize the importance of math, Winkler displayed a handful of abstruse equations.—
Neil J. Rubenking,
PC Magazine,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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Perseverance's adventures have revealed some insights about the enigmatic Martian geology.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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Weapons is a movie about a local misfortune that then reveals the enigmatic villain behind it and delights in her comeuppance.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Now, Caron and Kirby have teamed up again for this emotional roller coaster of a film, with Lynette going to unfathomable lengths to protect her family’s future.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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But carrying around a little mini garbage can for our butts is unfathomable.—
Jeremy D. Larson,
Pitchfork,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The concern is understandable since the result could well become something too esoteric or scholarly for its own good.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
1 Aug. 2025
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Thus, every Sunday there would be a large gathering of family on the farm to enjoy an esoteric dark roux gumbo.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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However, audio quality can make or break social media content and while some people can tolerate less-than-perfect video, poor and unintelligible sound often has audiences swiping left.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Airports and airplanes do not have a monopoly on unintelligible announcements.—
Michel A. Ibrahim,
Baltimore Sun,
22 June 2025
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“Unsearchable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsearchable. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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