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Recent Examples of implausibility
The implausibility of it all was part of the exhilaration, to be sure.
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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
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
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Their use of the well-being of Iranians as a justification for spending billions to topple the Islamic regime is just brazen hypocrisy.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2026
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The centuries-old pot-kettle idiom points out hypocrisy — as when one person accuses another of a flaw that afflicts himself.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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In 2024, North Korea claimed to have successfully testlaunched a multiwarhead missile, but South Korea quickly dismissed it as deception to cover up a failed launch.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Mar. 2026
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These include debt bondage, restriction of movement, withholding of wages, excessive overtime, physical violence, surveillance, deception, isolation, abuse of vulnerability and abusive conditions.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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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
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Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity.—
Tina Nguyen,
The Verge,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Each new video encountered online requires a moment’s scanning for signs of fakery.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2026
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What would be the point of them doing obvious fakery?—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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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
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In an era of skepticism, audiences quickly detect insincerity.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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It’s been dried, stripped of bark, sanded to silky smoothness, stained, sealed and painstakingly carved.—
Kathy Gurchiek,
AJC.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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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 5 Apr. 2026.
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