unrecognizable

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Recent Examples of unrecognizable What emerged in the years after Okland’s death is a job that, in some ways, might be unrecognizable to past generations of agents. Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026 One of the war's bloodiest battles The familiar sights of Brooklyn were nearly unrecognizable when the Battle of Brooklyn, one of the bloodiest battles of the war, was fought. Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026 Because this — this version of Hart — by all accounts, is unrecognizable. Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026 Apex predators and massive herbivores shared a landscape that would be virtually unrecognizable to anyone walking through modern Taiwan. Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unrecognizable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrecognizable
Adjective
  • To the untrained eye, rip currents may seem unnoticeable.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The consequences of such an error, in the context of a computation where there is no cross-checking in place, can range from unnoticeable to catastrophic.
    Big Think, Big Think, 24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • In an increasingly cash-free economy, punishing customers for using a credit card or Apple Pay is unpopular.
    Miami Herald Staff, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But people don’t want to be affiliated with its leadership that leaves parents with no child care for random days off, pushes tax hikes on residents and bankrolls the city’s unpopular mayor.
    Mailee Smith, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The phrase is above a graphic of a faceless person standing among patches of grass and grey stepping stones.
    Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2026
  • For all their bombast, the ICE and Border Patrol agents seemed to work no harder than any other faceless federal bureaucrats.
    Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • An Air Canada flight collided with a firetruck in New York City on March 22, a passenger made a verbal bomb threat Sunday night while taxiing on a Frontier flight in Atlanta and the Raleigh airport was evacuated after an anonymous threat Monday morning.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Lindsey Jordan’s third LP of grungy, dreamy guitar rock aims for the same affective highs and lows of her previous records, but the hooks don’t sink as deep, and the production sounds frustratingly anonymous.
    Grace Robins-Somerville, Pitchfork, 30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Just under eight minutes into the first period Tuesday against the Philadelphia Flyers, Ovechkin popped Flyers defenseman Cam York with a firm but largely unremarkable shove.
    Bailey Johnson, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Visually and viscerally, Bright Lights is about as captivating and unremarkable as municipal building artwork.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The site functions as a public service that allows the creator to stay mentally engaged while identifying trends and connections between stories that might otherwise go unnoticed by those too busy to consume multiple news sources.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The shift has not gone unnoticed by residents — and not all of them view it the same way.
    Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Hundreds of data centers have reshaped the county from an undistinguished rural region into an economic powerhouse that delivers more than $1 billion annually to local schools and supports one of the highest per capita income regions in the world.
    Mehdi Paryavi, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
  • For him to now be followed by his undistinguished son is a slap in the face.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026

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“Unrecognizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrecognizable. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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