Example Sentences

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During this year’s Super Bowl, cryptocurrency exchange FTX ran an ad for which it paid Larry David some unknowably huge amount of money.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2022

They’re about how the world sometimes seems unknowably mysterious, in ways both dangerous and awe-inspiring.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2022

Then Lee stood up and told the judge that S.F.F.A.’s own claims of implicit racial bias were outrageous, because Harvard admissions were an unknowably complicated, nuanced and sensitive process that involved 40 thoroughly trained people.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2019

It is a site adequately understood through assumption and conjecture, at once too simple and too unknowably complex to warrant the humility of self-education.

From Slate • May 15, 2019

Unlike the almost unknowably silent DiMaggio, however, McGwire was an accessible and affable presence from the very beginning of his remarkable career.

From Time Magazine Archive