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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The project follows efforts from fellow emirate Dubai to transform its city into a walkable one, while nearby Saudi Arabia is even more ambitious with its incredible building spree, including the JEC Tower and the Line.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 June 2025
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Head down Highway 1 from San Francisco to one of the most incredible natural backdrops on the West Coast.—
Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
24 June 2025
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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
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But his approach is unlikely to foster either emotion.—
KORI SCHAKE,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Despite rapid advances in AI tools, experts say the technology is unlikely to transform the film and TV industry overnight due to rising production costs fueled by streaming wars.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
24 June 2025
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Her latest volume, the National Book Award winner Something About Living, is full of impossible cohesions, offering this straight-on singularity of body and mind to birds, grammars, and architectures.—
Cindy Juyoung Ok
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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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
Adjective
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In places, Frey adopts a third-person indirect P.O.V., but his attempts to convey characters’ interiority are unconvincing.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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Which parts feel generic, predictable or unconvincing?—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
15 May 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
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The nutrient can indeed help with all of those, but sometimes, the claims turn absurd.—
Lila Shroff,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2025
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The College World Series semifinals concluded Wednesday, allowing Houston Astros manager Joe Espada another chance to marvel at an absurd ascension.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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