as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
it's unconceivable that a once-promising actor could end up this way
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Recent Examples of unconceivable
Keep releases have been, but that seems unconceivable.
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2022
My homeland had put me through hell, and much worse, had done unconceivable atrocities, genocide even, in neighboring countries.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2022
My homeland had put me through hell, and much worse, had done unconceivable atrocities, genocide even, in neighboring countries.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unconceivable
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Harry brought his trademark humor and warmth to the awards, a ceremony honoring seriously ill children who have shown incredible courage, joking and making smiles all around.—
Erin Hill,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Thanks to incredible works like Parasite and Squid Game, Korean content has made huge achievements on the world stage.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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Out of towners may be incredulous about Charlotte’s Chinese food scene, but tens of thousands of Asian Charlotteans know where to go — they just might be tightlipped about it.—
Shindy Chen,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Sep. 2025
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Stephen Shore says, sounding a little incredulous.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
3 Sep. 2025
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Apple has leaned more into natural photographic output, but the extra creative power and the ability to capture impossible shots that the Pixel 10 Pro offers a more attractive story to users.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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For millions of elderly or disabled people, these were daunting or impossible options.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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The comedic murder-mystery series following three unlikely neighbors — Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) — who bond over their obsession with true crime podcasts.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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The upshot is that France’s fiscal mess is unlikely to be fixed anytime soon.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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Naturally, cultivating enough soy and corn to feed billions upon billions of chickens demands an inconceivable amount of land, water and fossil fuels.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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In past discussions, Asimov had employed the apt analogy of examining the elemental motion of gasses, where movements of each individual molecule is nearly impossible to predict, but taken as a whole its progressions and paths can be charted out across inconceivable oceans of time.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The Gilberts’ son Nick, one of their five children, died in May 2023 from neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic disease that causes non-cancerous tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body, likely putting an unimaginable strain on the family.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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And a pay package once unimaginable is back in play—only now, the number is no longer billions, but a trillion.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Just a few hundred people live in Chichiriviche, and some 70 families depend on fishing for their subsistence, so not taking the boats out is unthinkable.—
Andrew Raine,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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More Suo Takekuma/Pool Photo via AP Such a scene would have been almost unthinkable until recent weeks.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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Obviously, the pitching side was unbelievable.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
10 Sep. 2025
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This was an unbelievable weekend.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Unconceivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unconceivable. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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