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
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Adjective
  • 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
  • Instead, some experts argue, they are meant to block every conceivable route for Chinese goods to reach the United States—boxing China out of the global supply chain and reordering the world's trading system.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 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, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Shell World stocks an extensive selection of gifts, home decor, books, clothing, memorabilia, island souvenirs—and, yes, thousands upon thousands of shells in every shape, size, and color imaginable.
    Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Even if the text itself seems plausible, the link is a telltale red flag.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Using bioenergetic modeling — a method that uses mathematical simulations to quantify the energy needed to make and break chemical bonds in a biological system — the team attempted to identify a plausible scenario in which life could emerge on Titan.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • My Maryland street is proof of that and offers a call for states and the rest of the world to carry on the fight for climate solutions as fast as possible.
    Mike Tidwell, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Many Andor fans weren’t happy to learn that Disney+ intended to release the show’s second and final season in weekly three-episode chunks, as if the streamer were eager to be done with this outlier entry in the Star Wars franchise as quickly as possible.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Thinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinkable. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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