as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
the book attempts to communicate the uncommunicable horrors of war
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Munn: These are people who have incredible wealth and are crumbling in front of your eyes.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025 -
There’s also pressure to read an incredible amount (in my opinion, videos that feature ultra-short books to help viewers boost their end-of-year tally miss the point; reading is not a competition!)—and to spend quite a lot of money.—
Leila Herrmann,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2025
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The last 17 months have seen unspeakable destruction and death wrought upon a people who, during the previous 20 years, lived under blockade by the Israeli military and the brutal regime of Hamas.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Those moments when intuitions remain unspoken and unspeakable are only part of life.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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This sends Charlie down a rabbit hole of indescribable grief.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2025
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Loch Ness, the infamous freshwater lake in the Scottish Highlands, has long been thought to be the home of an indescribable creature.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2025
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Piranesi is a mystery, a mystery of the mind, a way for Clarke to communicate the incommunicable.—
Jason Kehe,
Wired,
21 Sep. 2020
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And nothing is more isolating, more incommunicable, than the grief of a parent who has been unable to save their child’s life.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
31 Aug. 2022
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The film’s energetic abstraction—accelerating into the deepest, ineffable parts of our souls—is one way art can respond to the challenge of technology.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2025
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There are also plenty of new songs (even the trio of musical numbers carried over from the original have extensive new lyrics from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul), though none of them have the same special, ineffable quality of the originals.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Uncommunicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncommunicable. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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