as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
Since the rumors of Henderson’s passing began to surface late Friday night, A’s fans were left to cope with the seemingly incomprehensible notion that their Superman was gone.
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Melissa Lockard, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
Because Lynch’s whole deal was about engagement — connection through friction, comprehension through acknowledging the incomprehensible world all around us, empathy by way of bridging the gap between disparate concepts.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
The people who tend Altadena’s venerable deodar cedars have suffered incomprehensible community losses this week, but Santa Rosa Avenue, a.k.a.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Multiple wildfires have ravaged Los Angeles in recent days, wreaking incomprehensible devastation and destruction.
—Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Melissa Lockard, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
Because Lynch’s whole deal was about engagement — connection through friction, comprehension through acknowledging the incomprehensible world all around us, empathy by way of bridging the gap between disparate concepts.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
The people who tend Altadena’s venerable deodar cedars have suffered incomprehensible community losses this week, but Santa Rosa Avenue, a.k.a.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Multiple wildfires have ravaged Los Angeles in recent days, wreaking incomprehensible devastation and destruction.
—Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehensible
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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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Instead, like 2022’s Smile, the end credits are accompanied by haunting unintelligible voices and sounds throughout.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
17 Oct. 2024
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Several years later, Hoffa disappeared under mysterious circumstances and was never seen again.—
David Wharton,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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The groundbreaking find, the researchers claim, could reshape our understanding of the universe and its most powerful and mysterious signals.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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The sword at least offers some measure of closure; the retrieval effort a bit of agency in an unfathomable situation.—
Katie Kilkenny,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jan. 2025
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Unedited images beyond any horror movie ran in a continuous stream, showing mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers standing on the ledges, making the unfathomable decision to jump from the burning buildings.—
Dara Riordan,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The video brings to mind the claims made in Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, in which Fisher proposed that capitalism has the uncanny ability to subsume all critiques into itself.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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When spending time with them, Brunelle observed uncanny similarities in their behavior and interests.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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With athletic directors increasingly consumed by revenue generation, schools are relying more and more on outside firms to help fill holes up and down their staff directories, from Olympic sports coaches to even more esoteric positions.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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Certainly, the many other bravura moments of The Return suggest a storyteller with enough juice to make even his most fanciful, esoteric ideas and characters into reality.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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Lynch wove tales, not unlike those of his Spanish predecessor Luis Bunuel, which proceeded with their own impenetrable logic.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
16 Jan. 2025
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This time, Nick tracks Donnie down not to arrest him but to join his criminal enterprise, the Panthers, and stage a heist of the impenetrable World Diamond Center.—
Robert Daniels,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Both parties have spent much of the 21st century using what had been obscure procedural tactics to delay or slowly derail presidential nominees for Cabinet posts, regulatory agency boards and federal judgeships.—
Ed O'Keefe,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2025
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The recent wildfires shine a spotlight on an obscure firefighting charity.—
Hunter Clauss,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Then, a hacker breaks in, posts a cryptic message, and triggers Wentworth's expanding investigation into a global struggle over truth and information.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
16 Jan. 2025
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Both Trista and Ryan were in the news over the summer after Ryan posted cryptic messages on his Instagram account.—
Sara Vallone,
Miami Herald,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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