: not imaginable or comprehensible
unimaginable horror
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Examples of unimaginable in a Sentence
the unimaginable horrors of war
a disaster of almost unimaginable proportions
This technology would have been unimaginable five years ago.
Recent Examples on the Web
With the state my mind was in, that was unimaginable.
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Andrew Chapman, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2024
The sudden sounds of heavy artillery, airstrikes, and shelling were unimaginable.
—TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
For more than a millennium, these unimaginable riches drew marauders from all corners—Arabs, Seljuks, Chalukyas, Mamluks, Mughals, and eventually, the Brits.
—Lee Cobaj, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2024
Yet amid these unimaginable burdens, the women of Gaza are somehow rising to meet challenges that only seem to get heavier by the day: lack of sanitation, single parenthood, hunger, disease.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Throughout his storied tenure in the NFL, Russell Wilson has achieved unimaginable success on the gridiron.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024
The loss is unimaginable, especially in the wake of losing Tim just under five months ago.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
Servers are built differently, racks of power-hungry GPUs require new cooling methods, networking is reaching nearly unimaginable speeds, and keeping clusters of AI computing resources fed with data disrupts traditional approaches to storage.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Terry shouldered an unimaginable burden when teammate and fellow defensive lineman Brandon Smith was found shot and killed the night before Manchester’s state title game in December.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Andrew Chapman, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2024
The sudden sounds of heavy artillery, airstrikes, and shelling were unimaginable.
—TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
For more than a millennium, these unimaginable riches drew marauders from all corners—Arabs, Seljuks, Chalukyas, Mamluks, Mughals, and eventually, the Brits.
—Lee Cobaj, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2024
Yet amid these unimaginable burdens, the women of Gaza are somehow rising to meet challenges that only seem to get heavier by the day: lack of sanitation, single parenthood, hunger, disease.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Throughout his storied tenure in the NFL, Russell Wilson has achieved unimaginable success on the gridiron.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024
The loss is unimaginable, especially in the wake of losing Tim just under five months ago.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
Servers are built differently, racks of power-hungry GPUs require new cooling methods, networking is reaching nearly unimaginable speeds, and keeping clusters of AI computing resources fed with data disrupts traditional approaches to storage.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Terry shouldered an unimaginable burden when teammate and fellow defensive lineman Brandon Smith was found shot and killed the night before Manchester’s state title game in December.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
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“Unimaginable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unimaginable. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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