as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
to most people it seemed unthinkable that such a gentle man could be guilty of such awful crimes
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Recent Examples of unthinkable
Annualized volatility has dropped to a once-unthinkable 38% from close to 200% more than a decade ago.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
For the private sector, this would be unthinkable.
—Jennifer Sirangelo, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
For many parents in the neighborhoods around Waddell, the idea of sending their children to a small private school would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
—Chandler Fritz, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Until these moments of frustration started spilling out, the idea of benching Tucker against a division rival the Cubs are chasing would have seemed unthinkable.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
For the private sector, this would be unthinkable.
—Jennifer Sirangelo, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
For many parents in the neighborhoods around Waddell, the idea of sending their children to a small private school would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
—Chandler Fritz, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Until these moments of frustration started spilling out, the idea of benching Tucker against a division rival the Cubs are chasing would have seemed unthinkable.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unthinkable
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He's been incredible with the Mets, and his power is almost impossible to replace.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Wolves have taken a bit of a gamble – could be incredible, could be a flop.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
2 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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That seems an unlikely development as the calendar turns to September.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Far more important to me, though—and to anyone else unlikely to stay upstairs—are the hotel’s public spaces.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
31 Aug. 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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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
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Attacking this season without another striker arriving feels inconceivable, though obtaining him is proving anything but straightforward.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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Despite the unimaginable tragedy of the day, Gayken said, there were far less casualties than there could have been.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Aug. 2025
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Reality $850 million represents unimaginable wealth.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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And to do it with my two best friends and my dad was an unbelievable experience.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, Arsenal bolstered its squad by signing goalscoring phenomenon Viktor Gyökeres of Sweden, who scored an unbelievable 68 goals in 66 matches across two seasons in the Portuguese league—and 97 goals in 102 matches across all competitions in that time.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Unthinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unthinkable. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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