as in incredulous
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
tried to explain her weeklong disappearance with an incredible tale of abduction by a total stranger
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Recent Examples of incredible
There are dozens of examples of rental players doing incredible things for their temporary teams after the trade deadline.
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Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
Recognize the incredible difference teachers make every day.
—Clinton McCracken, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2026
Rollins fought off a superplex attempt on the top rope, but Breakker responded with an incredible top rope frankensteiner.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
Wembanyama said the team just needed to be consistent and avoid mistakes, rather than doing incredible things.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 9 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for incredible
Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
Recognize the incredible difference teachers make every day.
—Clinton McCracken, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2026
Rollins fought off a superplex attempt on the top rope, but Breakker responded with an incredible top rope frankensteiner.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
Wembanyama said the team just needed to be consistent and avoid mistakes, rather than doing incredible things.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 9 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for incredible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incredible
Adjective
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On several occasions throughout the game, Lakers players were incredulous after calls – or non-calls – from the crew.—
Benjamin Royer,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
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On several occasions, Lakers players were incredulous after calls — or no-calls — from the crew.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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Wardley's chin is unbelievable.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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The guys have been playing unbelievable defensively throughout the playoffs so far.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Intel's only other major external customer commitment for foundry is unlikely to see real results until 2029 or beyond.—
Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
8 May 2026
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The depiction of the boy is unlikely to be accurate, according to the trust.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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The message was impossible to miss.—
Rick Stroud,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 May 2026
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Predictions are sometimes simply impossible to make, Velíz writes, which doesn’t stop people from trying to make them.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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Simply being unhoused is an unimaginable nightmare.—
Michael Perkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 May 2026
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Over the past century, American innovation has transformed healthcare, turning once-unimaginable ideas into lifesaving realities for patients around the world.—
Joaquin Duato,
Fortune,
9 May 2026
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At that point, something terrible, something on the scale of the Maidan protests in Ukraine in 2014, is not inconceivable.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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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
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Key, the brother of Broncos safety Devon Key, fought off good coverage from UDFA cornerback Brent Austin to make a fantastic back-shoulder grab down the left sideline in a later 11-on-11 period.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
10 May 2026
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This northern California park has acres of hydrothermal attractions with fantastic names like Bumpass Hell, Fart Gulch, and Devils Kitchen.—
Dave Parfitt,
USA Today,
9 May 2026
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Given how short all total solar eclipses are, being at all concerned about how many seconds totality lasts is actually ridiculous.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
10 May 2026
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That, of course, didn’t set well with WWE’s passionate fan base, especially given that WWE found enough time to put on a ridiculous amount of commercials but somehow not enough to spotlight one of its longest-running rivalry featuring two of the top stars in the women’s division.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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“Incredible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incredible. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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