: 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.
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Historic plantations across the South are currently undergoing a previously unimaginable transformation.
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Whitney Nell Stewart, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
These are films that take the unimaginable—the height of human physical, psychological, and emotional endurance—and present them in all their nail-biting glory for all the world to see.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 11 July 2024
The purpose of such films is to attach a human face to unimaginable tragedies, to put us in the shoes of society’s most vulnerable, but what’s most striking is how Holland extends that approach to everyone her camera captures, whether the oppressors or the oppressed.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
Here, 10 Sandy Hook survivors and recent graduates — several of whom have joined the Jr. Newtown Action Alliance to make schools safer — and five parents whose children were killed reflect on their unimaginable loss and what’s ahead.
—Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 19 June 2024
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Whitney Nell Stewart, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
These are films that take the unimaginable—the height of human physical, psychological, and emotional endurance—and present them in all their nail-biting glory for all the world to see.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 11 July 2024
The purpose of such films is to attach a human face to unimaginable tragedies, to put us in the shoes of society’s most vulnerable, but what’s most striking is how Holland extends that approach to everyone her camera captures, whether the oppressors or the oppressed.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
Here, 10 Sandy Hook survivors and recent graduates — several of whom have joined the Jr. Newtown Action Alliance to make schools safer — and five parents whose children were killed reflect on their unimaginable loss and what’s ahead.
—Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 19 June 2024
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“Unimaginable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unimaginable. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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