Mark Twain

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.

American Writer

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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.

American Scientist

Michael Gove

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.

British Politician

Lewis Thomas

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.

Virginia Woolf

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?

British Author

Rebecca MacKinnon

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

American Journalist

Jeb Hensarling

In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

American Politician

Michelle Malkin

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Michael Shellenberger

Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality.

American Author

Ilhan Omar

ICE has only become increasingly militarized, brutal, and unaccountable.

Use 'unaccountable' to describe strange events or phenomena that have no logical explanation.

Mystery Contexts

Often used in contexts with supernatural, eerie, or otherworldly undertones.

Supernatural Associations

Employ when unexpected or random events occur without a clear cause.

Unexpected Occurrences

Suggests someone isn't required or expected to justify actions or decisions to others.

Beyond Reproach

Expresses a strong sense of personal independence, free from outside control.

Assert Independence

Carries a connotation of carelessness or neglect of one's responsibilities.

Negative Implication

 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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 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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