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Recent Examples of unsearchable
Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror, former rival of the Daily News, is also unsearchable.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
Amid outcry from Swift’s fans on social media, lawmakers and the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, X made the Grammy winner’s name unsearchable on its platform over the weekend.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Taylor Swift became unsearchable on X, just days after deepfake images of her in pornographic and violent situations went viral.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024
All the work Suffolk detectives had done on the case was unsearchable — accessible only to a few detectives who were relying on their own limited memories of the case.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
A week after topping Apple’s iTunes chart, popular versions of a Hong Kong protest anthem are unsearchable on the platform, as the government tries to outlaw the song in the city’s courts.
—Kari Lindberg, Fortune, 14 June 2023
The process is a logistical nightmare that often renders the applicant unsearchable online, to their personal and professional detriment.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 21 July 2022
On China’s Twitter -like Weibo platform, the hashtag #ZhuYiFellDown, which mocked the Olympic debut of Ms. Zhu and which had been viewed more than 200 million times, suddenly became unsearchable, apparently sometime late Sunday.
—Elaine Yu, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
Her post lasted 30 minutes on Weibo before it was censored, and her name rendered unsearchable.
—Rui Zhong, Wired, 5 Dec. 2021
Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
Amid outcry from Swift’s fans on social media, lawmakers and the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, X made the Grammy winner’s name unsearchable on its platform over the weekend.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Taylor Swift became unsearchable on X, just days after deepfake images of her in pornographic and violent situations went viral.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024
All the work Suffolk detectives had done on the case was unsearchable — accessible only to a few detectives who were relying on their own limited memories of the case.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
A week after topping Apple’s iTunes chart, popular versions of a Hong Kong protest anthem are unsearchable on the platform, as the government tries to outlaw the song in the city’s courts.
—Kari Lindberg, Fortune, 14 June 2023
The process is a logistical nightmare that often renders the applicant unsearchable online, to their personal and professional detriment.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 21 July 2022
On China’s Twitter -like Weibo platform, the hashtag #ZhuYiFellDown, which mocked the Olympic debut of Ms. Zhu and which had been viewed more than 200 million times, suddenly became unsearchable, apparently sometime late Sunday.
—Elaine Yu, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
Her post lasted 30 minutes on Weibo before it was censored, and her name rendered unsearchable.
—Rui Zhong, Wired, 5 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsearchable
Adjective
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Data fed into these systems passes through layers of hidden nodes, performing thousands of computations that are largely inscrutable.—
Anise Madh,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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The black hole at the center of our galaxy is hardly more inscrutable than the mysterious process by which Gov. Ron DeSantis decides which condemned prisoner will be put to death next.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Nov. 2024
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In retrospect, the integer distance problem was waiting for mathematicians who were willing to consider more unruly curves than hyperbolas and then draw on recondite tools from algebraic geometry and number theory to tame them.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
1 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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Her scream resonated with the one in my chest while also being incomprehensible and beyond me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 July 2025
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Without answers, the grieving process was incomprehensible.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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Also, his estimate arose from abstruse economic formulas and lots of magic asterisks.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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Into Breaking Its Own Rules To emphasize the importance of math, Winkler displayed a handful of abstruse equations.—
Neil J. Rubenking,
PC Magazine,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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This enigmatic character used his power to control the time-stream in a post-Crisis on Infinite Earths scenario to create a smaller universe with only two populated planets: our Earth and Krypton.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
17 July 2025
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Other notable cast members include John Lithgow as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore; Paapa Essiedu as enigmatic potions professor Severus Snape; and Lox Pratt as Hogwarts bully Draco Malfoy.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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Blakely, along with 26 other Camp Mystic girls and counselors, perished in the deluge – forcing her family to endure yet another unfathomable tragedy.—
Pamela Brown,
CNN Money,
18 July 2025
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But Aicher’s message got through: This wasn’t a pickle, this was a full-fledged disaster, unfolding with unfathomable fury.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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While the cloven-hoofed Maison Margiela Tabi transcended from its position as cult cool girl shoe some time ago, even the less esoteric among us are testing out the toe-accentuating and toe-baring side of fashion.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
26 July 2025
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Other complaints get a bit more technical and esoteric and farther away from things that regular people probably care about.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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As satire, Next to Heaven is unintelligible, as though someone is universalizing their own hangups and then skewering them for clout.—
Book Marks
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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Filled with uncanny creatures and unintelligible language, the book's inspiration came, Serafini muses, either from aliens, or his cat.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
30 May 2025
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“Unsearchable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsearchable. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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