as in unbearable
more than can be put up with
people used to travel along this stretch of the highway by night so as to avoid the unendurable heat of the day
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Recent Examples of unendurable
The best among us rarely know what to say, how to look, how to be there for a friend who is enduring something unendurable.
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Amanda Nguyen, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
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
Both Nelson Mandela and John McCain said being placed in solitary was more painful and unendurable than any of the physical tortures their jailors imposed.
—Dr. James Gilligan, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2024
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Amanda Nguyen, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
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
Both Nelson Mandela and John McCain said being placed in solitary was more painful and unendurable than any of the physical tortures their jailors imposed.
—Dr. James Gilligan, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unendurable
unbearable
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For reasons that are quite possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American voters was not repulsed by such slander—they were actually aroused by it—and our politics have not been the same.—
Jeffrey Goldberg,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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The 2025-26 cycle, in its early stages, has also mobilized students, laborers, women, and ethnic minorities, suggesting the potential for broader mobilization amid unbearable economic conditions.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Unendurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unendurable. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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