as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
the formerly inconceivable idea that humans could land on the moon
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Recent Examples of inconceivable
Bradley’s film choreography, even in the numbers that Footer deems masterpieces, is above average, clever and assured, but Astaire’s art—inconceivable without the enormous influence of Bradley’s Black contemporaries, like John Bubbles—is in another league.
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Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
The camera quality on Artemis, let alone the ability to livestream the views, was inconceivable during the Apollo era.
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Rebecca Boyle,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
For most of baseball’s history, formal affiliation with any form of gambling was inconceivable.
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Michael Delayo,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
Perhaps displacement resides in these inconceivable connections, in these scandalous imprecisions.
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María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
The camera quality on Artemis, let alone the ability to livestream the views, was inconceivable during the Apollo era.
—
Rebecca Boyle,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
For most of baseball’s history, formal affiliation with any form of gambling was inconceivable.
—
Michael Delayo,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
Perhaps displacement resides in these inconceivable connections, in these scandalous imprecisions.
—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for inconceivable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconceivable
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The South American squad secured the $350,000 prize and trophy after an incredible lower bracket run, overcoming an early playoff loss to Paper Rex.
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Instead, Curaçao goalkeeper Eloy Room made an incredible 15 saves and Ecuador walked away with a humbling result against an opponent it was heavily favored to beat.
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On several occasions throughout the game, Lakers players were incredulous after calls – or non-calls – from the crew.
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On several occasions, Lakers players were incredulous after calls — or no-calls — from the crew.
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Hezbollah is unlikely to agree to any plan that would include its disarmament throughout the country.
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Alito also wrote that the argument that Haiti’s TPS designation was terminated because of race, thus violating equal protection claims, was unlikely to succeed.
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Your energy, self-confidence and competitive spirit are impossible to ignore, making this a powerful time for personal reinvention.
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On Thursday, the University of Kentucky announced a new $1 million prize to anyone able to decipher a complete scroll, a feat the researchers once considered impossible, by June next year.
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There is also the once-unthinkable idea that Marathon could slowly shift its genre.
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The idea of willingly spending some indeterminate amount of time feeling bad is unthinkable.
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That juxtaposition — of unimaginable darkness and enduring light — is at the heart of this journey.
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My own field of the interface of infectious diseases and the immune system has been transformed in the past few years with technological advances that were unimaginable years ago.
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Odyssey tells the unbelievable story of humanity’s first chapter in space, minute by breathtaking minute.
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In a weird twist, the Red Sox played the Giants later that week, adding more absurdity to an already unbelievable situation.
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“Inconceivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconceivable. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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