She's been making implausible claims.
He gave an implausible excuse for showing up late for work.
The novel has an implausible ending.
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But witnessing that scene Sunday night, even the most casual fan among a platoon of 50,000 disciples would grin at this once-implausible sight.—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025 The transcendental is, for Schrader, expressible only through contradiction: neither the implausible redemption at the end of First Reformed nor the relentlessly pessimistic two hours preceding it but the very juxtaposition of these incommensurable ontological frames.—Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025 Apart from a wide range of implausible and otherworldly explanations, researchers have spent decades trying to figure out the exact mechanics behind the odd behavior.—Andrew Paul Aug 14, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025 That doesn’t feel remotely implausible, given the level of talent (and of the popular appreciation for that talent) at play here.—Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for implausible
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