as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
continually encountered unspeakable beauty in their travels through the Alps
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Recent Examples of unspeakable
Even if those two men didn’t make it out of Europe alive, the unspeakable acts carried out in the name of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich would still live on in infamy, reminding humanity what blind hatred and xenophobia could lead to if a society wasn’t careful.
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Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Guralnick / Detroit News / AP file An alternative medicine clinic where a Michigan boy suffered an unspeakable death has put a spotlight on the largely unregulated world of hyperbaric oxygen therapy that is offered outside of hospitals.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2025
In a statement, District Attorney Brian Mason described Gettler’s actions as unspeakable and outrageous.
—Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2025
For Students for Justice in Palestine to gather on the memorial of that day to honor Hamas terrorists who died after committing unspeakable atrocities should be horrifying to any empathetic person.
—Ellia M Torkian, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
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Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Guralnick / Detroit News / AP file An alternative medicine clinic where a Michigan boy suffered an unspeakable death has put a spotlight on the largely unregulated world of hyperbaric oxygen therapy that is offered outside of hospitals.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2025
In a statement, District Attorney Brian Mason described Gettler’s actions as unspeakable and outrageous.
—Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2025
For Students for Justice in Palestine to gather on the memorial of that day to honor Hamas terrorists who died after committing unspeakable atrocities should be horrifying to any empathetic person.
—Ellia M Torkian, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspeakable
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The Red Scare unfolded amid all of this other incredible political activity, including the civil rights movement and the push for women’s rights.—
Sara Georgini,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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What struck me most—and what still amazes me today—was its incredible audio design, creating water sounds that seemed impossible for 8-bit hardware.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 Apr. 2025
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More to Explore What is Fundamentalism? Livia Gershon November 28, 2022 Fundamentalism, which shifts the balance between authority structures and the indescribable divine, emerged after medieval society gave way to the modern.—
Andrew Latham,
JSTOR Daily,
27 Mar. 2025
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Holding her baby for the first time was indescribable.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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Two high voices — LACO features soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor John Holiday — intertwine with the orchestra turning this hymn to the Virgin Mary’s suffering into unutterable sweetness and treating death as life’s engenderment.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2024
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In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.—
Jonathan Rowe,
SPIN,
28 June 2022
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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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The telescope will observe each ecliptic pole once every orbit all mission long, seeking something seemingly ineffable: the faint signal of all the light emitted over the universe’s history, which SPHEREx scientists will then parse out across time.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
28 Feb. 2025
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.—
Erin Maglaque,
The New York Review of Books,
15 Nov. 2024
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Indeed, there is something more cosmic, spiritual and inexpressible about what is missing —a poignant reminder of the profound void left by SOPHIE’s departure from our astral plane.—
Juan Velasquez,
Them,
23 Sep. 2024
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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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Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2025
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An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2024
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“Unspeakable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspeakable. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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