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Haring couldn’t change the way people stared at single Black mothers, and she couldn’t heal whatever unnameable pain had plagued the woman who died.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
All through the next year that unnameable guilt dogged me, until I longed for Lent to come.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2019
Linguists Nicole Kruspe, at Lund University in Sweden, and Asifa Majid, at the Netherlands' Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, say that, for millennia, Western scholars dismissed scents as unknowable, or at least unnameable.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2018
At Time, Stephanie Zacharek said, “‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ captures the essence of all sorts of youthful desires, both those that are easily identifiable and the more aching, unnameable kind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2016
Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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