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
One, Elizabeth tackling the fly was incredible.
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Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
In fact, there’s an incredible 2,240-acre state park just down the road from Bryce Canyon that offers a similar experience, just with fewer fellow visitors.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2026
Its internal heat powers our solar system’s fastest winds, measured at an incredible 2,200 kilometers per hour—faster than the speed of sound.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
Rodrigo has yet to drop tour dates behind GSIL, which will follow her momentous Guts World Tour that wrapped in August 2025 (the double LP Live at Glastonbury showcased her incredible year touring the festival circuit).
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026
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Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
In fact, there’s an incredible 2,240-acre state park just down the road from Bryce Canyon that offers a similar experience, just with fewer fellow visitors.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2026
Its internal heat powers our solar system’s fastest winds, measured at an incredible 2,200 kilometers per hour—faster than the speed of sound.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
Rodrigo has yet to drop tour dates behind GSIL, which will follow her momentous Guts World Tour that wrapped in August 2025 (the double LP Live at Glastonbury showcased her incredible year touring the festival circuit).
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incredible
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Starmer’s explanation was greeted with jeers from opposition lawmakers, incredulous that the nation’s leader hadn’t known such a crucial piece of information.—
Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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The judge, Cedric Simpson, was incredulous.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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This was an unbelievable adventure, and it was made possible by this crew and the support of each other throughout the whole thing.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Among them are shocking, surreal, unbelievable, unprecedented and unexpected.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Attempting to close this gap solely by raising the gas tax would require a dramatic increase that is unlikely to be politically viable.—
Andrew Stasiowski,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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But analysts said the new model is unlikely to send markets into the kind of frenzy the previous one did.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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That’s the kind of streak that should be impossible.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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So local schools and other governmental units presumably would have to ask for twice as much money to get the same amount, which might make such a deal financially impossible.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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The same logic of privatization that enabled Blackwater to operate freely in Iraq was vesting him with powers previously unimaginable for private entities.—
Ben Tarnoff,
Big Think,
23 Apr. 2026
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Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomes Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha’s Vineyard, an enchanting place where the two friends become summer sisters.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Boston's 32-point Game 1 win stands as the outlier so far of two otherwise fantastic playoff games.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
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What a fantastic comeback from hurricane devastation.—
Ticked Off,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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His per-touch production over the last two years at Notre Dame has been ridiculous.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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That’s ridiculous, at the same time.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Incredible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incredible. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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