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  • adjective Not findable; that cannot be found.

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Examples

  • The Finder, starring Geoff Stults and Michael Clarke Duncan, follows a man with the uncanny ability to find people find the unfindable.

    Bones Fall Finale Pushed Back to January 2011

  • Sopa and Pipa would give US authorities the power to block sites accused of copyright infringement at the domain level – in other words to make them disappear from the internet by rendering them unfindable.

    Don't let war on piracy break the internet 2012

  • The band was always chasing the beat - like a jazz combo on some spiritual quest to find the great unfindable.

    In concert: Kylesa at Black Cat Chris Richards 2011

  • Whole class of works whose creation requires finding lots of unfindable owners; that operates as a costly screen.

    IPSC, first plenary session Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Sopa would allow the movie industry, through the courts and the US attorney general, to send a slew of demands that internet service providers ISPs and search engine companies shut down access to those alleged violators, and even to prevent linking to those sites, thus making them "unfindable".

    The Sopa blackout protest makes history | Amy Goodman 2012

  • Whole class of works whose creation requires finding lots of unfindable owners; that operates as a costly screen.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • The band was always chasing the beat - like a jazz combo on some spiritual quest to find the great unfindable.

    Headbanging good times: Hunt for the beat helps fuel Kylesa Chris Richards 2011

  • Notice and takedown would make some information unfindable, removing it from the commons.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Each of the parts comprising the self is unfindable in terms of intrinsic existence, and yet to say they do not exist would be a mistake too.

    Shantideva's Wisdom Chapter 2010

  • Each of the parts comprising the self is unfindable in terms of intrinsic existence, and yet to say they do not exist would be a mistake too.

    Shantideva's Wisdom Chapter 2010

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