as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
the terrorist attacks generated a whole passel of implausible conspiracy theories that dishonor the memory of those who perished
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Recent Examples of implausible
That slow uplink would have made one of my inflight tests, uploading a 499MB video of our takeoff to PCMag’s Slack workspace, implausible to impossible.
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Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
At its conception, his economic agenda was a high wire act with not net – one that mainstream economists from both parties largely found completely implausible.
—Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
This is a blunt tool that risks unintended consequences, like when Meta and Google tried to counteract bias and ended up generating implausible and historically inaccurate images — like Black founding fathers and diverse Nazi soldiers.
—Ina Fried, Axios, 21 Apr. 2025
An alternative but far more implausible route is Chelsea finishing sixth and Newcastle United seventh.
—Andy Naylor, New York Times, 20 May 2025
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Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
At its conception, his economic agenda was a high wire act with not net – one that mainstream economists from both parties largely found completely implausible.
—Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
This is a blunt tool that risks unintended consequences, like when Meta and Google tried to counteract bias and ended up generating implausible and historically inaccurate images — like Black founding fathers and diverse Nazi soldiers.
—Ina Fried, Axios, 21 Apr. 2025
An alternative but far more implausible route is Chelsea finishing sixth and Newcastle United seventh.
—Andy Naylor, New York Times, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for implausible
Adjective
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In the fewer than five years since then, the tracks have collectively moved an incredible five million additional equivalent units.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Their outreach is incredible and this event itself has raised over a million dollars over the years.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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Jens Stoltenberg, who was then secretary-general, was incredulous.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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Researchers have just confirmed what could be the largest leak ever, with an almost incredulous 16 billion login credentials, including passwords, exposed.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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But his approach is unlikely to foster either emotion.—
KORI SCHAKE,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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De-Lin, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health, saw some patients who, at 20 weeks of pregnancy, learned that their fetuses had severe anomalies and were unlikely to survive.—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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The exponential growth of data from observability and monitoring has made human analysis nearly impossible.—
Peter High,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Testing also identified saliva on the shirt, although Ibar was excluded as being the contributor — which the defense alleges would be impossible because the assailant wiped his face with the shirt on the video.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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In the current repressive climate, the explanation is frankly unconvincing.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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However, police missteps doomed the case, and the jury found the state's evidence unconvincing.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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With the new high-rise apartments on offer, investors—so far, mainly locals and Albanians living overseas—are paying prices that would have been inconceivable just five years ago.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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An Iranian attack on these forces is not inconceivable.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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That feeling of surprise, the shock of unbelievable graphics being rendered in real time, stood up for the entire game.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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This still is unbelievable – not that those Braves officials continued their epidemic of team-friendly deals with players, but that neither Acuna nor anybody in his financial orbit could see beyond the present.—
Terence Moore,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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Rich and influential adults enjoyed Lear’s company, but Lear himself preferred making mischief for children, telling absurd stories and drawing impossible creatures.—
Caroline Carlson
June 30,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2025
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Traditionally, a show truck of this caliber would be fitted with an absurd array of chrome lightbars, air horns and blingy accessories but that would be counterintuitive to the vehicle’s mission.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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