as in unexplainable
impossible to explain
the decorator's client has an unaccountable dislike for that color
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Recent Examples of unaccountable
Detractors are concerned that an unelected, unaccountable man holds so much power and is disrupting the federal government mightily from seeking to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to defunding the U.S. Department of Education.
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David Plazas, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Worse, school choice can become an excuse for policymakers to skirt hard and immediately needed conversations about an ineffective public-school curriculum, classrooms that have morphed into screen zombies, or unaccountable teacher and student performance.
—Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 18 June 2025
Without clear insight into how AI models make decisions, businesses risk deploying tools that are unaccountable, biased or poorly understood.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
But replacing it with a junta of unaccountable elites—the Putin model—is not an improvement.
—Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
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David Plazas, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Worse, school choice can become an excuse for policymakers to skirt hard and immediately needed conversations about an ineffective public-school curriculum, classrooms that have morphed into screen zombies, or unaccountable teacher and student performance.
—Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 18 June 2025
Without clear insight into how AI models make decisions, businesses risk deploying tools that are unaccountable, biased or poorly understood.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
But replacing it with a junta of unaccountable elites—the Putin model—is not an improvement.
—Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaccountable
Adjective
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And extreme pain in my bones [that was] unexplainable.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
20 July 2025
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Strange and unexplainable things happen on the show.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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The firm’s Hype Cycle normalizes — even glamorizes — the irrational, costly overpromising and overselling that hype entails.—
Eric Siegel,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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And even some buyers who pride themselves on discipline and efficiency turn somewhat irrational.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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In a surprising and inexplicable way, as takeoffs and landings ceased, the feverish activity that airport grass hides under its seemingly peaceful surface came to a screeching halt.—
Fabio Morábito,
New Yorker,
24 July 2025
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Among the new cast, Sui Wonders’s Ava is the most direct Julie James avatar: the brainy brunette with a haunted look in her eyes and an inexplicable, undying lust for her high-school boyfriend.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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The same could be true of the recent cost estimates, but construction technology has advanced in the past half century, so that lower costs per mile are not unreasonable.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Barbara Attard, a police accountability expert, said meet and confer can last months, but beyond a year is unreasonable.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 July 2025
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“Unaccountable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaccountable. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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