as in impenetrability
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Noun
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Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025 -
As a result, the impenetrability of EU bureaucracies will continue to limit the United States’ ability to restructure transatlantic economic relations.—
JENNIFER KAVANAGH,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And that requires the opposite of inscrutability.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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His work marries a depth of thought with inscrutability, and for over 15 years, this has resulted in rap music that is ambitious and vulnerable while Staples comes off as ambivalent about it in interviews.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
13 Nov. 2025
Noun
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His roots offer some clues to understanding his esotericism.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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For the most part my efforts at sculpting a musical identity were fueled by an esotericism that disdained common and easily accessible genres.—
Justin E. H. Smith,
Harper's Magazine,
6 Sep. 2023
Noun
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That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But few of them are explicit about that, and their counterparts in the academy indulge in the same vagueness.—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Starmer’s vagueness may be a measure of the lack of good options that US allies have to spur Iran to reopen the strait.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Markets didn’t love that ambiguity.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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There’s little room for ambiguity.—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Or would they be expected to lie low and fade into obscurity like their parents?—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
1 Apr. 2026
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But the paper quickly vanished in obscurity.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Unanswerability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unanswerability. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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