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unknowably

  • a word derived from unknowable.
    unknowable
    adjective
    not knowable; incapable of being known or understood.

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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

“During my friendship with Kobe, he was always seeking to define and understand inspiration even while modestly, and almost unknowably, he was an inspiration to countless millions,” Williams said.

From New York Times Jan. 26, 2020

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