unfindable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unfindable
1785–95; un- 1 + findable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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“This operation shows that you always leave tracks, nobody is unfindable, even online,” Stan Duijf, of the Dutch National Police, said in a video statement.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024
“It just became part of my norm to be unfindable, ungettable and private. I’ve always been such an individualist, and learning to have roots is something that’s coming to me later in life.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2017
I was about ready to declare them unfindable when all of a sudden I turned a corner, and there they were.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 27, 2017
Moreover, as anyone who’s ever owned a remote control can tell you, new technologies themselves are often infuriatingly unfindable, a problem made worse by the trend toward ever smaller gadgets.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
If library facilities consist in rendering the books in it unfindable, and therefore unavailable to any reader, then the argument for free range of the shelves arrives at a reductio ad absurdum.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
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