ˌən-ˈan(t)s-rə-bəl
as in conclusive
not capable of being challenged or proved wrong
the unanswerable assertion that she didn't know much about art but she knew what she liked
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Recent Examples of unanswerable
Though his World Series moment didn’t occur with the Red Sox, the experience could lend insight into his new organization, which spent 86 years racking up similarly stunning last-second heartbreaks and unanswerable what-ifs.
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Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
Yet certain fundamental questions about the Fourier transform have remained stubbornly, and mysteriously, unanswerable.
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Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026
Visions of the Western United States —its woods and landscapes— both entice and haunt Grainier throughout his life, evoking unanswerable beauty and heartbreak that circle around and around the logger and railroad worker, nonlinearly over the course of the film.
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Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
That question is unanswerable until after this season — Watson’s fourth in the league.
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Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
26 Oct. 2025
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Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
Yet certain fundamental questions about the Fourier transform have remained stubbornly, and mysteriously, unanswerable.
—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026
Visions of the Western United States —its woods and landscapes— both entice and haunt Grainier throughout his life, evoking unanswerable beauty and heartbreak that circle around and around the logger and railroad worker, nonlinearly over the course of the film.
—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
That question is unanswerable until after this season — Watson’s fourth in the league.
—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unanswerable
Adjective
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That kind of research is less conclusive than clinical trials that follow subjects over time to create new and theoretically more reliable data that can do more to prove cause and effect.
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But, again, is acting out of expediency and the desire to streamline a conclusive end the same as delivering a final season representing the best of The Bear?
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Organizations that embed deep, scientific inquiry into their commercial DNA can not only disrupt existing markets but also engineer entirely new ones based on the irrefutable laws of physics.
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For the Delfonts, who use a tape-recorder to capture this desperate plea, Leonora’s words serve as irrefutable proof that an academic career has failed to compensate for the absence of a husband and child.
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That must be the unquestionable goal for next season.
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Nonetheless, its power is unquestionable.
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Yet despite these unarguable facts, the direction of the animation world lately has been decidedly pro-Shrek and anti–French rat.
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But the unarguable fact is that the federal government would be providing less money to pay for health care for the roughly 72 million Americans on Medicaid.
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By slow degrees, Philip’s story shifts to accommodate the incontrovertible evidence of IP addresses and deciphered cryptography and Lucy struggles to keep up, let alone understand.
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What is incontrovertible, however, is how indispensable Guimaraes is for Howe and Newcastle.
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Indeed, Brian has created hundreds of billions in value for his shareholders and his legacy as one of the greatest business builders and dealmakers of our time is indisputable.
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While a snafu at the 2016 Oscars saw Moonlight achieve a very different kind of notoriety, the film remains widely regarded as the year’s indisputable best picture.
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Californians have been conditioned to consider recycling to be an unchallengeable proposition.
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The lens of the hearing never focused on Robeson, who was seen as only a prop for Robinson’s patriotism, unworthy of rediscovery, especially as the Robinson/Rickey integration story—sports as the pathway to equality—became virtually unchallengeable.
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As a result, mathematical truths do not make up a unified whole of equally indubitable truths; instead, their status as knowledge varies gradually from doubtless facts to increasingly uncertain hypotheses.
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The second route, and the route that makes indubitable sense, entails using the techniques and methods of psychology to gauge the performance of AI.
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“Unanswerable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unanswerable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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