thinkable

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Recent Examples of thinkable King and his wife, Tonya (Kacie Rogers, lending a no-nonsense freshness to the role for which Viola Davis won a Tony Award), are battling over whether a future is even thinkable. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024 Every thinkable type of casino game is also on offer. Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024 But, prior to the decision, four conservative justices, including Roberts, signaled receptivity to considering the theory as entirely thinkable. Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023 The unthinkable is all too thinkable: a major conflict on European soil with the unpredictability, the combustibility, and the ultimate futility of an extended military clash. Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2022 See All Example Sentences for thinkable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinkable
Adjective
  • Since then, the District of Columbia has overwhelmingly surpassed Baltimore as a big league city by any conceivable measurement.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2025
  • America’s recruiting advertisements are panoramas of young men and women of every conceivable ethnicity performing vital military functions with pride and professionalism.
    Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • He’s covered every sport imaginable, from Little League to the World Series to the Olympics.
    David Ammenheuser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2025
  • This is a man who has adopted as a career trajectory embracing some of the most noxious lies imaginable, those that cast doubt on the efficacy and safety of perhaps our greatest-ever medical achievement, vaccinations.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • But what happened on the first floor of the McCormick Place West Convention Center in downtown Chicago was hardly plausible.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 13 May 2025
  • Uttering them gives Santos plausible deniability, but Raposo still doesn’t buy it.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • The question the film ultimately asks is whether a third way is at all possible, leading to a gripping final combat that’s much less a knockout than a bitter victory.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
  • And Cannes — for all its flaws, its chaos, its maddening logistics — remains the one place each year where that future still feels genuinely possible.
    Martin Moszkowicz, Deadline, 17 May 2025

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“Thinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinkable. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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