as in intolerable
more than can be put up with
this heat is unbearable—when are we going to get air-conditioning?
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Recent Examples of unbearable
And breaking up over and over is unbearable.
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Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
For others who worked on the show, the experience became unbearable.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
For some of us, the onscreen versions will become unbearable.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Inside, the place that had been so hot as to be nearly unbearable on that morning 50 years ago was mostly empty, and the air-conditioning was cranked high enough to give me goose bumps.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
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Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
For others who worked on the show, the experience became unbearable.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
For some of us, the onscreen versions will become unbearable.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Inside, the place that had been so hot as to be nearly unbearable on that morning 50 years ago was mostly empty, and the air-conditioning was cranked high enough to give me goose bumps.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbearable
Adjective
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That is just intolerable sloppiness.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
28 Sep. 2025
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Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Without which the last phase of my mum’s life would have been unendurable.—
Geoff Dyer,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The best among us rarely know what to say, how to look, how to be there for a friend who is enduring something unendurable.—
Amanda Nguyen,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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During periods of intense rainfall, the risk of flooding increases, particularly in low-lying and flood-prone areas.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Safdie perceptively locates the protagonist’s troubling inner contradictions—the atavistic fury that drives him to compete and the intense self-control that competition demands—but dramatizes such outer crises as opioid addiction and conflict with his girlfriend (Emily Blunt) only schematically.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Despite the overwhelming support for the new Gang Suppression Force, many questions remain, including the final costs, which countries will deploy troops, how soon the additional security forces will arrive and the role of the Kenyan troops.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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But stars rely on overwhelming gravitational pressure to force their fusion.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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During the third quarter, Fever star Kelsey Mitchell left the court due to extreme cramping in her lower body.—
Frank Nunns O'Connell,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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But the plan roundly ignores the contributions of climate change to the state's extreme heat problem.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Josh Safdie takes us on a chaotic, sprawling globetrot to break down the swaggering hubris of a ping-pong prodigy who can’t being insufferable.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2025
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This pairing features two insufferable people: Jeremiah and Conrad’s father/human disaster Adam, and secretary Kalyeigh, a girl who is physically incapable of reading the room.—
Sarah John,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Conservatives and Republicans in Congress continue to claim that the cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits is an insupportable burden on America, so benefits need to be cut, though President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to preserve entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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There are people of goodwill who think the way out of this insupportable situation lies in the fight for equal democratic rights in a single state for everyone living in the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.—
Michelle Goldberg,
The Mercury News,
14 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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That's a terrible average to bet your life on.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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When his estranged daughter Sam tracks him down, in a last-ditch effort to dig her way out of serious trouble, Mickey must choose between rekindling his relationship with his daughter in the face of a terrible tragedy or pursuing a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Unbearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbearable. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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