Unaccountable
adjective
Not able to be explained or understood.
There were unaccountable noises coming from the attic.
Often appears as...
- unaccountable behavior
- unaccountable phenomenon
adjective
Not responsible or accountable to anyone.
She felt unaccountable to anyone for her actions.
Often appears as...
- feel unaccountable
- remain unaccountable
adjective
Not able to be explained or understood.
There were unaccountable noises coming from the attic.
Often appears as...
- unaccountable behavior
- unaccountable phenomenon
adjective
Not responsible or accountable to anyone.
She felt unaccountable to anyone for her actions.
Often appears as...
- feel unaccountable
- remain unaccountable
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Pro Tip 1/3Mystery Contexts
Use 'unaccountable' to describe strange events or phenomena that have no logical explanation.
Their sudden disappearance was completely unaccountable.
Pro Tip 2/3Supernatural Associations
Often used in contexts with supernatural, eerie, or otherworldly undertones.
She had an unaccountable feeling of being watched.
Pro Tip 3/3Unexpected Occurrences
Employ when unexpected or random events occur without a clear cause.
An unaccountable surge of electricity caused the lights to flicker.
Pro Tip 1/3Mystery Contexts
Use 'unaccountable' to describe strange events or phenomena that have no logical explanation.
Their sudden disappearance was completely unaccountable.
Pro Tip 2/3Supernatural Associations
Often used in contexts with supernatural, eerie, or otherworldly undertones.
She had an unaccountable feeling of being watched.
Pro Tip 3/3Unexpected Occurrences
Employ when unexpected or random events occur without a clear cause.
An unaccountable surge of electricity caused the lights to flicker.
Pro Tip 1/3Mystery Contexts
Use 'unaccountable' to describe strange events or phenomena that have no logical explanation.
Their sudden disappearance was completely unaccountable.
Pro Tip 2/3Supernatural Associations
Often used in contexts with supernatural, eerie, or otherworldly undertones.
She had an unaccountable feeling of being watched.
Pro Tip 3/3Unexpected Occurrences
Employ when unexpected or random events occur without a clear cause.
An unaccountable surge of electricity caused the lights to flicker.
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What's allowed in these discourses, it shouldn't be something that's left up to unaccountable systems. It's part of a discussion all of us should be having. But I'd leave a reminder that the alternative isn't very pleasant, either. YouTube also announced recently that they're going to release a version of their kids' app that would be entirely moderated by humans.
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How to choose your news...
or, worse, taking a guess. And watch out for reports that rely on anonymous sources. These could be people who have little connection to the story, or have an interest in influencing coverage, their anonymity making them unaccountable for the information they provide. Finally, and most importantly,
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The nightmare videos of...
What's allowed in these discourses, it shouldn't be something that's left up to unaccountable systems. It's part of a discussion all of us should be having. But I'd leave a reminder that the alternative isn't very pleasant, either. YouTube also announced recently that they're going to release a version of their kids' app that would be entirely moderated by humans.
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How to choose your news...
or, worse, taking a guess. And watch out for reports that rely on anonymous sources. These could be people who have little connection to the story, or have an interest in influencing coverage, their anonymity making them unaccountable for the information they provide. Finally, and most importantly,
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Quote examples
Mark Twain
American Writer
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.
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Michael Gove
British Politician
I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.
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Lewis Thomas
American Scientist
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
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Rebecca MacKinnon
American Journalist
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.
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Jeb Hensarling
American Politician
In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.
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Michelle Malkin
American Writer
Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.
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Michael Shellenberger
American Author
Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality.
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Ilhan Omar
American Politician
ICE has only become increasingly militarized, brutal, and unaccountable.
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Mark Twain
American Writer
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.
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Michael Gove
British Politician
I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.
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Lewis Thomas
American Scientist
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Quote examples
Rebecca MacKinnon
American Journalist
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.
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Jeb Hensarling
American Politician
In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.
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Michelle Malkin
American Writer
Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.
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Michael Shellenberger
American Author
Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality.
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Ilhan Omar
American Politician
ICE has only become increasingly militarized, brutal, and unaccountable.
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