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Recent Examples of unconceivable Keep releases have been, but that seems unconceivable. 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
Adjective
  • That’s not too surprising, as collections packed with greatest hits tend to have incredible staying power, especially in the streaming age.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Throwing data into a box and shaking it has yielded incredible results in processing human language, but that won’t be enough to treat disease.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Butler was incredulous that Curry – harassed by Houston’s long defenders such as Amen Thompson during a three-point, 1-of-10 shooting night – did not get more foul calls.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • But when President Donald Trump announced an additional 34% universal tariff on Chinese goods on April 2, Zou, who has been exporting to the United States for more than a decade, was incredulous.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And after dark, the dealers were impossible to miss: short young men in hoodies and women in pajama pants, slinking around corners with side packs.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
  • As is often the problem with biopics of all kinds — jukebox musical or not — the sheer scope of a life is impossible to capture in a mere 2 hour runtime.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Bondi signaled late last month that any criminal investigation into the matter was unlikely.
    Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Mark Carney's Liberal Party is predicted to win this week's general election in Canada, but is unlikely to win a landslide, according to recent polling.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In terms of achievements that were once equally preposterous and inconceivable 30 years ago, TCU reaching the Sweet 16 in women’s basketball is on the same level as the school making the national title game in football.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In fact, the superstructure is estimated to hold an almost inconceivable 200 quadrillion (that's 200 followed by 15 zeros) times the mass of the sun and is more than 1.3 billion light-years long, larger than the Milky Way.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Maggie Friar then faced the unimaginable task of sharing the news of Aaron's death with their two younger daughters.
    Natalie Morales, Richard Fetzer, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The Richest 1% Hold $25 Trillion in Stock Wealth: That top 1% owns more than half the total value of the public equity market—a concentration that would have been unimaginable a generation ago notes Inequalty.org.
    Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • For Jones, whose directorial debut could have died in that moment, the silence was unthinkable.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Just a few months ago, this would have been unthinkable.
    Drew Nelles, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And so to have someone like Carol Burnett on the show was an unbelievable bucket list dream.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Having the questions drafted by non-lawyers using artificial intelligence is just unbelievable.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Unconceivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unconceivable. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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