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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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question
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Nobody, and least of all S. O. Letterman, expects me to come back with answers to unanswerable questions .
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However, it was no use pondering on unanswerable questions .
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And yet he knew that Anne would find such an answer to her unanswerable question inadequate and unsatisfying.
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This hint of planning poses as yet unanswerable questions about the early impetus towards urban development.
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She glanced down, dusting the dirt from the pebble off her hands, wondering how to answer such an unanswerable question .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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unanswerable criminal charges
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Being unanswerable , it suggests that the terms of the discussion are wrong.
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But when she arrived on the fine white sand of the cove the question was still there, unanswered and unanswerable .
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However, it was no use pondering on unanswerable questions.
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Nobody, and least of all S. O. Letterman, expects me to come back with answers to unanswerable questions.
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One last problem remains, but is probably unanswerable .
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The path of the law is, as Megarry J. stated, strewn with examples of unanswerable charges which were completely answered.
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There were so many questions - all unanswerable .
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This book provides an unanswerable riposte to such nostalgic nonsense.