Examples of thinkable in a Sentence

They divorced during a time when that was barely thinkable.

Recent Examples on the Web Still, improved alternative energy sources and construction techniques are making off-grid living more thinkable for more people, including those who don't want to haul buckets of water from a well or live by candlelight. — Katherine Roth, USA TODAY, 12 June 2022 Still, improved alternative energy sources and construction techniques are making off-grid living more thinkable for more people, including those who don’t want to haul buckets of water from a well or live by candlelight. — Katherine Roth, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2022 They are designed by the Russians to blur the distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons, which strategists fear makes their use more thinkable. — New York Times, 1 June 2022 For many in the U.S. and around the world, the very notion of the public good has grown less thinkable. — Charles Mccrary, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022 The Girl From Plainville not only humanizes the characters at its center but brings you into the headspace that made such unthinkable actions feel thinkable. — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022 Pundits often make this point by citing the Overton window: a concept developed in the 1990s by two libertarian Josephs, Overton and Lehman, to describe the realm of the thinkable for mainstream voters considering policies and platforms. — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022 Today, both Russia and the United States have nuclear arms that are much less destructive — their power just fractions of the Hiroshima bomb’s force, their use perhaps less frightening and more thinkable. — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022 By making nuclear weapons smaller and the targeting more precise, their use becomes more thinkable. — Nina Tannenwald, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2022 See More

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