incomprehensibility
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incomprehensibilities
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This emerging language, known as “neuralese,” is drifting toward incomprehensibility because training an AI to arrive at the correct answer incentivizes them to use representations that span languages, mathematics and other disciplines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Mercifully, the Supreme Court may be cognizant of both the incomprehensibility of immigration paperwork and the weighty consequences of denaturalization and green card rescission.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2025
Patiently pushing the space between his words canyon-wide, Callahan describes the incomprehensibility of death as it violates the silence of a hospital corridor.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022
The doctor was smiling at the good news, but I was frozen, expressionless, anesthetized by the incomprehensibility of this new state of affairs.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2020
I rejoice still in the comfort of its incomprehensibility.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Some of the complexities, paradoxes and incomprehensibilities of Iranian behavior are hard to grasp, even for those with an understanding of the events covered in this book.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2013
The terrifying incomprehensibilities which were worshiped elsewhere, and the fear some spirits with which earth, air and sea swarmed, were banned from Greece.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Nevertheless, he, like the rest of his professional brethren, stops short at certain incomprehensibilities.
From The Brotherhood of Consolation by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Of two incomprehensibilities, which was the most plausible?
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
The new scenery, which Edward Henry had with extraordinary courage insisted on Saracen Givington substituting for the original incomprehensibilities displayed at the Azure Society's performance, rather pleased him.
From The Regent by Arnold Bennett
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