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Recent Examples of unbearable The sentiment felt like a dagger, striking with unbearable pain. Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025 The pressure can quickly become unbearable when anything short of a title is considered a failure, and many Bills fans believe McDermott is the only thing standing between them and the Lombardi Trophy. Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025 Outside, on First Avenue, the traffic was unbearable. Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 For their families, this moment is filled with cautious optimism and unbearable anxiety. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for unbearable 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbearable
Adjective
  • Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2025
  • If half of your life is intolerable, simply free yourself from it.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Promises her who knows what, seeing that she’s got to drink herself to oblivion constantly and choke down pills for her unendurable pain.
    Christian Kracht, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The 23-year-old captive’s parents showed all the anguish and anxiety that would befall anyone in their unendurable position.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 3 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters In an apparent ending to weeks of intense speculation, the White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump will be leveling aggressive tariffs this weekend on major U.S. trading partners.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Greenhouse gas emissions are driving temperature increases that make rain showers more intense, and high-rises have typically added stormwater injection wells to alleviate flooding.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Practical Assistance With Daily Tasks Everyday chores can be overwhelming for someone with metastatic breast cancer.
    Julie Scott, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP, Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The alternative is self-representation, but navigating the legal system without training is overwhelming.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Bucks were forced to cancel their practice across town at Tulane University as the extreme weather conditions made leaving their hotel impossible.
    Eric Nehm, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Both fires occurred during extreme Santa Ana winds that gusted more than 80 mph, a strength characteristic of hurricanes, which created what officials have called a firestorm.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Or Beverly Hills, where the paparazzi are insufferable.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Bex is at least insufferable in that way that television’s all-knowing, all-seeing profilers so frequently are.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Unless the distress among the German people should become insupportable, any sudden advance movement on their part that relied on force would be doomed to failure without armed support and assistance from outside.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Adjective
  • And both situations can, of course, be traced directly to the same source: years of terrible leadership by the commissioners and university presidents that end up hurting the athletes — and passing the cost of doing business onto the fans.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • But to add to what is at stake, former Chelsea head coach Graham Potter, who struggled to win the crowd over during a terrible seven months in charge in 2022-23, is returning as the opposition’s manager for the first time since he was sacked.
    Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025

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“Unbearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbearable. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.

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