as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
a completely unbelievable story about why there was lipstick on his collar
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Recent Examples of unbelievable
Pi Year: 1998 Run Time: 84 minutes Director: Darren Aronofsky
Like Primer (which appears earlier on this list), Darren Aronofsky’s debut Pi is a film whose short run time and low budget belie an almost unbelievable amount of complexity.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Hundreds of shoppers are pleasantly surprised by the luggage, with one praising its unbelievable quality for the price.
—Ali Faccenda, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2025
And also our brilliant cast, the rest of our cast and crew and everybody at Max and Universal for unbelievable support over the years.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
By pinning the crazy, outlandish, unbelievable cover story on a crazy, outlandish, unbelievable man – Howard Hughes.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Hundreds of shoppers are pleasantly surprised by the luggage, with one praising its unbelievable quality for the price.
—Ali Faccenda, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2025
And also our brilliant cast, the rest of our cast and crew and everybody at Max and Universal for unbelievable support over the years.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
By pinning the crazy, outlandish, unbelievable cover story on a crazy, outlandish, unbelievable man – Howard Hughes.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for unbelievable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbelievable
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The Iowa product laid out and brought in an incredible one-handed grab for the score to put Detroit in front 14-10.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
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Inside her was the growing awareness that Sebastien had only been writing her, Dani, out of a sense of duty, all the while hotly suffering a much more grownup correspondence with the incredible Yvonne.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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People were shocked by the war, incredulous, and grieving.—
Keith Gessen,
The New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2025
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The initial discovery was made by undergraduate researchers, who returned from the field site in Briones Regional Park earlier this year with videos of the squirrels’ behavior to show their incredulous supervisors.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Dec. 2024
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The takeaway from the technology perspective is that passkeys are all but impossible, although nothing is 100% secure, for hackers to guess or intercept.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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By 2026, the limits of Russia’s economic model will be impossible to ignore.—
Alexandra Prokopenko,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Jan. 2025
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Admiration for Juventus left-back Andrea Cambiaso is unlikely to go further in the current market.—
David Ornstein,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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As ByteDance has blocked the service, these workarounds are unlikely to be effective for long.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Unbelievable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbelievable. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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