as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
it's unconceivable that a once-promising actor could end up this way
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Recent Examples of unconceivable
Keep releases have been, but that seems unconceivable.
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2022
My homeland had put me through hell, and much worse, had done unconceivable atrocities, genocide even, in neighboring countries.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2022
My homeland had put me through hell, and much worse, had done unconceivable atrocities, genocide even, in neighboring countries.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unconceivable
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On top of the track views, the space also features incredible food options and entertainment space.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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My cousin was thrilled with the incredible support from the fans and is deeply grateful for Christian’s generosity.Bryan West, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
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On her face is something halfway between a grimace and an incredulous smile—a facial expression that many Harris supporters likely recognize as a universal, exasperated response to a Trump rant.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
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In the interim, Gore made another call to an incredulous Bush to retract his concession.Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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This naïve notion, backed by some supporters of the incoming administration, would reduce U.S. involvement in the war to a minimum, forcing Europe to provide all remaining support, a near impossible feat.Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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The fish experiment did convince him, and other researchers, that a human brain microbiome is not impossible.Yasemin Saplakoglu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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By way of Mike Curb, Motown also became the unlikely home of Pat Boone, the unabashedly wholesome (and religious) crooner and actor who’d become one of rock’s earliest stars thanks to his covers of songs by Little Richard and Fats Domino.David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
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In the late eighteenth century, an unlikely inmate was sent by Dutch colonial authorities to the infamous Robben Island, where freedom fighters including Nelson Mandela would later be imprisoned.H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 7 Dec. 2024
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The awesome parts—expelling a new person out of my own body, say—were, quite literally, inconceivable.Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Former President Donald Trump won the state 56% to 43% on Tuesday, a 13-point win that was inconceivable even to his most die-hard supporters four years ago.Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2024
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Un Último Sueño, Gira Los Estadios achieved the unimaginable for Morat: filling 25 stadiums, in 15 cities across 10 countries, with an attendance total of 800,000 people.Natalia Cano, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2024
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What would have been unimaginable and unfathomable to city politicians and residents in 2014 is not a number of homicides under 200 in a year but a number over 300 annually — a number Baltimore reached in 2015 and sustained through 2022!Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Dec. 2024
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That would have been unthinkable a generation earlier when Big Pharma lobbied Congress to prohibit such a policy.Dylan Scott, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
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Be inspired by the sacrifices of the Pilgrims at our first Thanksgiving — overcoming hardships that would be unthinkable today.Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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The blanket of sulfate aerosols that dropped global temperatures was about to unleash an ecologically unbelievable year around the world.Scott Travers, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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The film blends fact and fiction, though some of the most unbelievable parts are true.Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Unconceivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unconceivable. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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