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Recent Examples of unsearchable
The message disappears into an unsearchable thread or gets lost entirely due to chat retention policies.
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Sarah Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror, former rival of the Daily News, is also unsearchable.
—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
Sarah Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror, former rival of the Daily News, is also unsearchable.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsearchable
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As an artist, Lanthimos has been impossible to ignore over the last 15 or so years, whether his films garner Oscar attention (as in the case of Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Favourite, and Poor Things) or not (the more inscrutable Alps, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Kinds of Kindness).—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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But aside from hinting that there might be more gigs in the future, the reliably inscrutable singer did not fall for the bait of follow-up questions and left it at that.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
9 Oct. 2025
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This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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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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That would be an almost incomprehensible outcome, given that Mendoza — after graduating from Miami’s Columbus High School — had just one scholarship offer from a major-conference school, and that came from Cal just one day before National Signing Day.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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In the face of that, Keaton’s off- and sometimes on-duty style represented limitless possibilities, and a previously incomprehensible kind of freedom.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Oct. 2025
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But the turn feels less absurd than abstruse, sudden even, given the film’s prior resistance to laugh at itself.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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Kamala Harris’ penchant for strings of abstruse verbiage — popularly known as word salads — was one of several reasons her presidential campaign failed last year.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
6 Aug. 2025
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Mia Wasikowska plays Edith, an heiress who marries a seductive baron, Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), and moves into his enormous, decaying mansion — which is also inhabited by Thomas' enigmatic sister, Lucille (Jessica Chastain).—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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Brides finds Sally Bishop (Cooke) and her husband on a trip to Northern Italy in 1961, where they get stranded at a remote villa run by the enigmatic Vova (Lawtey), who presides over a household of beautiful, deathless women (Turner-Smith, Prettejohn) and their caretaker (Gorman).—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Advisers were on hand to teach them the nuances of the Situation Room and the importance of maintaining calm under unfathomable stress.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Other of these esoteric features might actually be worth seeking out.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
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Duran had published articles on Tan and his wealthy colleagues, like Balaji Srinivasan, a tech investor who was promoting an esoteric but stubbornly influential concept called the Network State.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The vendor said some other things that were unintelligible because of the overlap between her live speech and the lagging translation.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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But in an Akan language, the notion that an object could exist as a bare substrate, stripped of properties—say, the idea of a stone, with its weight, texture, and color subtracted—is basically unintelligible; the metaphysical split between a thing and its properties isn’t naturally expressible.—
Lula Konner,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Unsearchable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsearchable. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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