thinkable

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Recent Examples of thinkable Governments should also draft plans for what to do in the most important, thinkable scenarios, as well as how to deal with AGI’s many non-existential issues such as mass unemployment, runaway inequality, and energy consumption. Otto Barten, TIME, 16 May 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for thinkable
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Adjective
  • Today’s massacres, whether one believes the most conservative or liberal casualty estimates, are on an order of magnitude deadlier in every conceivable aspect.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That such a scenario was ever remotely conceivable has alienated Europe in ways that Washington won’t soon be able to repair, European officials said.
    Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Think melted cheese cuisine (raclette, fondue, tartiflette) and spa hotels with outdoor fire pits and indoor hot tubs, plus easy access to skiing, and every other winter sport imaginable.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Every imaginable class is on offer at the state-of-the-art fitness center and movement studios and weary muscles can be revived by hitting the Springhouse Circuit, which includes a salt room, cedar sauna, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, tepidarium, and cold plunge.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • That’s plausible but difficult to detect without screening people at a very young age, but there could also be difference in the progression of the tumors themselves, Cercek says.
    Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The model does not assume perfection, but across every plausible scenario — even pessimistic ones — the gains from helping adult smokers move away from cigarettes overwhelmingly dominate.
    Kevin Bardosh, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • With just one point out of a possible 10 during this home stand, this team now feels more akin to the one that spun nearly out of control in November and December.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Japan’s Finance Minister said the government will coordinate with the US on currency responses when necessary, as market participants grow increasingly wary of possible coordinated action between Washington and Tokyo.
    Erica Yokoyama, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026

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“Thinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinkable. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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