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Recent Examples of thinkable
And that would not have been thinkable 10 years ago.
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Ben Smith, semafor.com, 16 Jan. 2026
The only thing that might have stopped us from accepting this kind of corruption as thinkable would be if such acceptance upended our overall understanding of how constitutional democracy functions.
—Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2025
This bet-the-business kind of change would not previously have been thinkable.
—Glenn Katz, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
That's but one of the once-unthinkable scenarios that seem more thinkable than ever.
—Axios, 22 Jan. 2025
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Ben Smith, semafor.com, 16 Jan. 2026
The only thing that might have stopped us from accepting this kind of corruption as thinkable would be if such acceptance upended our overall understanding of how constitutional democracy functions.
—Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2025
This bet-the-business kind of change would not previously have been thinkable.
—Glenn Katz, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
That's but one of the once-unthinkable scenarios that seem more thinkable than ever.
—Axios, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinkable
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The Giants are a big (but should be bigger) budget behemoth that can’t do the big things right and also, for good measure, are doing every conceivable little thing wrong.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
2 June 2026
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Why does rhythm and rhyme put me to sleep, why does the language of poets seem to me to be the least interesting language conceivable?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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This suggests that space itself is one of the most quantum things imaginable.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 June 2026
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The team has taken the world by storm since 2018, playing baseball in the most unorthodox ways imaginable in professional stadiums across the country.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
31 May 2026
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But in the decades since PBHs were first proposed, astronomers found clever ways to narrow down their plausible range of masses, ruling out many scenarios in which these black holes could account for dark matter.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
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But my conclusions about these impacts rest on plausible inferences from what researchers know more generally about cognitive psychology.—
Christian B. Miller,
The Conversation,
4 June 2026
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Anything and everything is possible and can be achieved with a trademark, down-to-earth friendliness.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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Wherever possible, Arnold shot outside the studio, capturing her subjects going about their everyday lives — a radical approach for celebrity photography at the time.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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“Thinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinkable. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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