implausibility

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Recent Examples of implausibility The implausibility of it all was part of the exhilaration, to be sure. Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2026 These choices add more implausibility to a script already leaden with it. Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 15 Dec. 2025 Remarkably, Madoff’s investors accepted these reports for years, despite the implausibility of the returns. Erik Lie, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for implausibility
Noun
  • The hypocrisy is especially rank as RFK pushes the Food and Drug Administration to loosen restrictions on peptides, an experimental fad among wellness influencers who scorn traditional medicine.
    Editorial Board, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The centuries-old pot-kettle idiom points out hypocrisy — as when one person accuses another of a flaw that afflicts himself.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As with Lavrov, Taras’ journey out was perilous, involving some deception and a huge amount of courage.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
  • So, while Massachusetts was accusing Exxon of climate deception, the state was also fighting a records request that exposed its own failure to comply with one of its own climate rules.
    Paul Diego Craney, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The story of a secret agent confronted with duplicity and bureaucracy from his own side while investigating a Soviet kidnap ring, it was published in 1962 and went on to sell millions of copies.
    Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity.
    Tina Nguyen, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Each new video encountered online requires a moment’s scanning for signs of fakery.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
  • What would be the point of them doing obvious fakery?
    Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Allen’s combo of flip insincerity and kindly concern is a terrific treat, recalling Bill Murray at his doofy best.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
  • In an era of skepticism, audiences quickly detect insincerity.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But that rhetoric sounded hollow in the face of its dalliance with a drug-smuggling double-dealing despot like Noriega.
    Time, Time, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Making his Broadway debut, Burr is a cyclone as the fast-talking, double-dealing Dave Moss, who springs a plan to steal the leads on his unwilling accomplice, George Aaronow (McKean, drolly exasperated).
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • It’s been dried, stripped of bark, sanded to silky smoothness, stained, sealed and painstakingly carved.
    Kathy Gurchiek, AJC.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Some include increased smoothness, tightness, and hydration, plus reduced wrinkles, inflammation, sagging, and age spots.
    Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026

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“Implausibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/implausibility. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.

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