as in inscrutable
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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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The numbers were completely opaque and inscrutable to human eyes.—
Billy Perrigo,
TIME,
29 Jan. 2025
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Across his four-feature filmography, Eggers’s female characters can be selfish and inscrutable, but that is almost always in reaction to unsympathetic, patriarchal societies.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 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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This is something incomprehensible to any human being.—
Caitlin McFall,
Fox News,
5 Feb. 2025
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The loss of Oakland’s MLB team and then the city’s greatest MLB son in the same year is an almost incomprehensible loss for fans like Peters, who feel abandoned by the league.—
Melissa Lockard,
The Athletic,
21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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However, at the OXY ARTS gallery in Los Angeles, that abstruse portrait of Sagittarius A* looks a little different.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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Tunnelling, meanwhile, is an abstruse turn on a classic skill exemplified by the finest Dodger pitcher of them all, Sandy Koufax.—
Nicholas Dawidoff,
The New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Iris, played by Heretic and Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher, is a gorgeous yet enigmatic young woman who looks something like Zooey Deschanel in her New Girl years but without her happy, slightly thoughtless enthusiasm for life.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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The second season takes the series’ tense atmosphere and twisty storyline to the next level, with more enigmatic threats and a psychological game with devastating consequences.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
TIME,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The unfathomable idea that the track may soon close or be sold is closer to reality than ever.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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But with fires spreading unfathomable destruction, calls to cancel the Grammys, SAG Awards and Oscars came quickly.—
Elizabeth Wagmeister,
CNN,
1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But here’s the thing: For the average American, these lofty concerns can feel distant, esoteric and abstract.—
Matt K. Lewis,
Twin Cities,
9 Feb. 2025
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In addition to leading one of the most progressive, esoteric, and liberalized sects of Islam, the imam was an accomplished racehorse breeder and proponent of Islamic architecture.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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From lobbing slow-motion, underhanded softballs of no public interest to failing to seek clarification for unintelligible tirades to ignoring or allowing falsehoods and blatant political spin, the interview serves less as a public service and more as a reminder of ...—
Becket Adams,
National Review,
12 Jan. 2025
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According to Klippenstein, parts of the document are unintelligible due to Mangione's handwriting.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
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“Unsearchable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsearchable. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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