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Recent Examples of improbably
Sauce, the room takes a moment to savor a flavor improbably retrieved from the days of the Korean War.
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Failing to find success after a seven-year grind in Nashville, James returned to medical school, only to see his songwriting career improbably take off from afar.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Blitz, Steve McQueen’s 2024 film about the Luftwaffe bombing of London, featured an improbably mixed-race protagonist.
—Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The Bitter Mai is also, improbably, absolutely delicious.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
The show has had its ups and downs over the years but has attained the sturdiness of a cozy British mystery, the kind where bodies pile improbably high in otherwise charming villages and the format can, in theory, run forever.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
Much like the other two Vista hotels—one in Como city, another in Verona—the bathrooms are improbably chic, outfitted in slabs of marble in clarets, undersea greens, or the blue-gray-gold multicolor seen in astrophotography.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
The strange-sounding but improbably delicious standout is the vegan ceviche made from rambutan (a fruit similar to lychee).
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
No team has won a World Series after ranking in the bottom five in home runs since the 2012 Giants, who finished 30th in that department and improbably won six consecutive elimination games in the postseason.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Failing to find success after a seven-year grind in Nashville, James returned to medical school, only to see his songwriting career improbably take off from afar.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Blitz, Steve McQueen’s 2024 film about the Luftwaffe bombing of London, featured an improbably mixed-race protagonist.
—Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The Bitter Mai is also, improbably, absolutely delicious.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
The show has had its ups and downs over the years but has attained the sturdiness of a cozy British mystery, the kind where bodies pile improbably high in otherwise charming villages and the format can, in theory, run forever.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
Much like the other two Vista hotels—one in Como city, another in Verona—the bathrooms are improbably chic, outfitted in slabs of marble in clarets, undersea greens, or the blue-gray-gold multicolor seen in astrophotography.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
The strange-sounding but improbably delicious standout is the vegan ceviche made from rambutan (a fruit similar to lychee).
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
No team has won a World Series after ranking in the bottom five in home runs since the 2012 Giants, who finished 30th in that department and improbably won six consecutive elimination games in the postseason.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for improbably
Adverb
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At the time, the fields of primatology, ethology, anthropology, and all of science were incredibly male-dominated.—
Emma Hinchliffe,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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And there was Mahab Ghodss, an incredibly powerful and opaque consulting firm run by regime insiders, which drafted the studies for dam projects and lobbied for approval.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Above the tree line, the landscape changes completely with alpine tundra, jagged peaks jutting out in the distance, and skies that seem impossibly close.—
Abby Price,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Oct. 2025
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Their output bears no visible relationship to the data that went in, and cracking a modern encryption algorithm would take an impossibly long time (or a quantum computer from the future).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Improbably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/improbably. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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