implausibility

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Recent Examples of implausibility Remarkably, Madoff’s investors accepted these reports for years, despite the implausibility of the returns. Erik Lie, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Okatsuka, meanwhile, mocked the hypocrisy of the participating comedians and even shared details of her offer on social media, which came with content restrictions.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Drawing on Riefenstahl’s own words to reveal hypocrisy and self-mythologizing, the film utilizes archival footage and photographs to make history feel alive, immediate, and unsettlingly urgent.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a chilling case of deception and domestic violence, what appeared to be months of stalking by an ex-boyfriend turned out to be an elaborate scheme orchestrated by a Colorado woman's own husband, culminating in her murder just days before Christmas.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Methods include propaganda, deception, sabotage and other non-military tactics, the alliance says.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To Serbian audiences, Vučiċ accuses the EU of duplicity and anti-Serbian prejudice.
    Hanna Begić, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Stevenson’s pirates are a frighteningly murderous and totally untrustworthy bunch, thriving on threats and duplicity.
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Accusations of fakery in combat photography go back at least to Mathew Brady’s pictures of Civil War battlefields.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The fakery made the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 significantly worse in Greece.
    Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In an era of skepticism, audiences quickly detect insincerity.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • And as the secretive Jack, Travis Van Winkle oozes oily, sexist insincerity.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Or that double-dealing old ally who can still hunt?
    Mohammed Hanif, Time, 2 Sep. 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
  • The smoothness of recent CBA negotiations should ensure there’s more money coming into the market in the coming years, too.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Research suggests marine collagen can help improve the elasticity, hydration, and smoothness of the skin.
    T'Keyah Bazin, Verywell Health, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Implausibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/implausibility. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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