as in impenetrability
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Noun
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But the impenetrability of where this story is going, and the dwindling numbers of who will survive by the end of it, are diminishing shadows that glow.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025 -
Curiously, this rediscovered impenetrability has come with Nick Pope, the undisputed No 1 goalkeeper, injured.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
1 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Tom’s nagging emptiness does not have a core of profundity, but he’s also not passed off as a comic type (despite hauling out the same story about a bet with Rafael Nadal).—
Nicolas Rapold,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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Surreal images from the novel that could easily have looked silly on screen—a rivulet of blood winds its way across town, from the home where a character dies to his family’s abode, for example—retain their poetic profundity.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
2 Dec. 2024
Noun
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For one night, Miami can relive the heyday of Overtown’s famous Black hotel The heyday of popular Overtown nightclub the Knight Beat inside the Sir John Hotel have faded into obscurity.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2025
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Compensation screened at Sundance in 2000, receiving positive notices from critics like Roger Ebert and landed an Independent Spirit nod before falling into obscurity.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Unknowability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowability. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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