as in ambiguous
not able to be known
No matter how far science advances, some things about the world will always remain unknown and unknowable. If passed, this law will have unknowable consequences.
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Recent Examples of unknowable
Widow’s Bay has an admirable relationship with its own lore, veering away from the pure mystery-box approach of treating its secrets as sacred and unknowable.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
17 June 2026
The answer isn’t unknowable, but the people with the most power to shape it have spent the better part of a decade arguing about whether the question is fair.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
14 June 2026
In so many of his films, Spielberg tries to control and redefine something that is, on some level, unknowable and petrifying.
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Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2026
Gallner, meanwhile, keeps Oliver just unknowable enough to sustain an edgy crackle of tension.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
7 June 2026
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
17 June 2026
The answer isn’t unknowable, but the people with the most power to shape it have spent the better part of a decade arguing about whether the question is fair.
—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
14 June 2026
In so many of his films, Spielberg tries to control and redefine something that is, on some level, unknowable and petrifying.
—
Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2026
Gallner, meanwhile, keeps Oliver just unknowable enough to sustain an edgy crackle of tension.
—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
7 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknowable
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Vermeule—a former clerk for Scalia—proposes that conservatives should read the Constitution’s ambiguous phrases and general structure in an openly moral way, drawing on principles grounded in the nature and purposes of government.
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Without a unified, clean, and accessible data structure, AI outputs quickly become ambiguous, hallucinated, and diluted, deepening the clarity crisis rather than resolving it.
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Beulah's spurned heir Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) calls up the mysterious Mariana (Raoul Max Trujillo) to help with his many problems, which include his ranch-usurping half-brother Rob-Will and those Duttons from Montana.
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Nicolas Winding Refn’s audacious return to feature filmmaking is a gorgeous, mysterious act of cinema, sensorial and transgressive, that demands to be experienced on its own terms.
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Naughton joins a cast led by Reeve Carney as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby, Eva Noblezada as Daisy Buchanan and Corbin Bleu as Nick Carraway.
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Excavations at Rising Star have sparked debate about whether these little hominins had all ended up in the caves by tragic accident, or whether they’d been carefully placed there by other members of their enigmatic species, dubbed Homo naledi.
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When that’s not enough, Google may add random noise to the data that can further obscure identities.
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This seems, if anything, deliberately obscure.
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Harvard Health has taken a critical look at Apollo Neuro, and Medscape has warned about uncertain efficacy in at-home vagus stimulation devices.
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At the edge of an uncertain frontier, the founders organized people, knowledge, and governance in a way that could survive the unknown.
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More than a year later, the origin of the document remains murky.
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By the time the game ended, Sasaki’s three-inning start seemed like a murky nightmare the Dodgers awoke from in a sweat.
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Yet whether van Dijk will still be in uniform in 2030 is unclear, making this a chance the Netherlands can’t afford to lose.
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Any plan for data retention policies remains troublingly unclear, and there’s seemingly been no privacy impact assessment weighing the privacy implications of centralizing so much sensitive data in the White House, the Guardian reported.
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“Unknowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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