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Recent Examples of impossibly
After all of the information is presented, the film is much more interested in exploring the human story of how each of us has to wrap our own mind around an impossibly large topic.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2026
The Hoosiers won games by huge margins, with late-game heroics and at sites that seemed impossibly challenging such as Oregon and Penn State.
—Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2026
At 836,000 square miles, Greenland is nearly 80 percent ice, a frozen leaf dangling in the far North Atlantic with dramatic, ragged edges, impossibly sheer cliffs that dwarf even El Capitan, and a massive ice sheet as thick as 11,000 feet.
—Tim Neville, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
They’re built up to be these impossibly deadly and evil and cunning foes, and then our much less impressive heroes manage to take them down through grit and determination or just dumb luck.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2026
The Hoosiers won games by huge margins, with late-game heroics and at sites that seemed impossibly challenging such as Oregon and Penn State.
—Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2026
At 836,000 square miles, Greenland is nearly 80 percent ice, a frozen leaf dangling in the far North Atlantic with dramatic, ragged edges, impossibly sheer cliffs that dwarf even El Capitan, and a massive ice sheet as thick as 11,000 feet.
—Tim Neville, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
They’re built up to be these impossibly deadly and evil and cunning foes, and then our much less impressive heroes manage to take them down through grit and determination or just dumb luck.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impossibly
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San Dieguito’s Director of Teaching Learning and Education Brieahna Weatherford said getting to this point has been incredibly challenging, the culmination of two years of work.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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At liftoff, there’s this incredibly gorgeous orange glow that came out of the bottom of the launch pad.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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In the aftermath of the 2016 election, a small group of conservative intellectuals tried to reconcile their ideological movement with the man who now, improbably, sat atop it.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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In the season premiere, corporate negotiator Sam Nelson (Idris Elba) appears to have somewhat improbably landed himself in a second hostage situation on a crowded underground train in Berlin.—
Sabienna Bowman,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Impossibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impossibly. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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