inscrutability

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inscrutability
Noun
  • Leading in ongoing ambiguity demands emotional endurance, narrative agility and the strength to stay grounded while evolving at speed.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Director Flanagan handles the escalating insanity with suggestive ambiguity, nothing too bombastic for as long as the story allows.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • The movie’s psychological framework, its system of motivations, is stretched very thin between two extremes: of clarity and opacity, near-obviousness and absolute impenetrability.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
  • Played with gruff impenetrability and a thinly veiled sadistic streak by David Shih, this big dog’s name is Mitsuo, but no one uses names in the heya — only ranks.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Inscrutability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inscrutability. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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