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  • adverb In an ungraspable manner.

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ungraspable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • From here on out, this was the central problem I grappled with: how to grasp the possibilities within this ungraspably large space of designs.

    Wolfram Blog : Minimum Inventory, Maximum Diversity 2009

  • Itâ⠂ ¬â „ ¢s brilliant space opera without the usual drags of a huge cast, ungraspably-complicated political networks, or soap-opera plotlines.

    Planet-x.com.au » The Wormhole Nexus setting resources 2008

  • Confronted with a government of already massive, ungraspably broad and invasive powers, powers which only increase by the day, you should pray as fervently as you can that those who would track your every keystroke, every email, and every moment of internet activity are the most colossally incompetent, ignorant fools the world has ever seen.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • For the problems of ordained ministry today have a great deal to do with whether or not the priest can hold together the reality of this world with the reality of Christ's renewing act; and for this we need above all a theology that is alert to the full scope of what the Catholic creeds announce, the mystery of God's threefold life, the ungraspably radical fact of the Word becoming flesh, the fidelity of the Spirit praying Christ in us and into us, and sanctifying what we offer in our powerlessness and unworthiness.

    'The Christian Priest Today': lecture on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Ripon College, Cuddesdon 2004

  • -- as indeed, our criminal war in Iraq is nothing but an operation dedicated to killing innocent people in ungraspably huge numbers -- so a new kind of target probably won't deter them for long, if at all.

    Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque Chris Floyd 2008

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