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
Facebook and Instagram each have 3 billion monthly users, an unthinkable global reach that’s hard to unseat.
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Catherine Thorbecke, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
This season, Major League Baseball is introducing something that once felt unthinkable.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
One hundred miles is a long drive, an even longer bike ride, and for many, an unthinkable distance to run.
—Brad Stulberg, Outside, 26 Mar. 2026
This is the 1980s, during which legal marijuana was unthinkable.
—Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
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Catherine Thorbecke, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
This season, Major League Baseball is introducing something that once felt unthinkable.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
One hundred miles is a long drive, an even longer bike ride, and for many, an unthinkable distance to run.
—Brad Stulberg, Outside, 26 Mar. 2026
This is the 1980s, during which legal marijuana was unthinkable.
—Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unthinkable
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The Cleveland Guardians have also stacked some early wins, overcoming their below-average offensive production thanks to a pitching staff that has been striking out opposing hitters at an incredible rate.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
12 Apr. 2026
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Highlights include an elegant, compact profile, incredible-feeling low-profile optical switches, a striking mini LCD in the top-right corner, and Elgato Stream Deck integration.—
Zackery Cuevas,
PC Magazine,
12 Apr. 2026
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An evolving cross-cultural icon For Nakamachi, seeing how fortune cookies evolved into an unlikely cultural icon in a foreign land is inspiring.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The magazine’s second editor was nonetheless a Gernsback ally, the unlikely electrical engineer and former editor of Scientific American Thomas O’Connor Sloane.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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The judge, Cedric Simpson, was incredulous.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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Travelers at the airport Monday who heard about the vote were incredulous.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Jalen Brunson knows any variation of offensive plays featuring both him and All-Star teammate Karl-Anthony Towns can be difficult, nearly impossible for opposing defenses to guard.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Thank you to the public servants wrestling with impossible decisions.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026
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At that point, something terrible, something on the scale of the Maidan protests in Ukraine in 2014, is not inconceivable.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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The camera quality on Artemis, let alone the ability to livestream the views, was inconceivable during the Apollo era.—
Rebecca Boyle,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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That may backfire on California Republicans, who were potentially looking at the previously unimaginable scenario of an all-GOP general election in the country’s biggest blue state.—
Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
10 Apr. 2026
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If dinosaurs were strong and intelligent — if humans didn’t really deserve to inherit the Earth from them — then their death in a cosmic freak accident represents unimaginable loss.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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Five scientists walk into a bar … Welsh starts the story of this unbelievable October night that way – always.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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And then all of these unbelievable actors join.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Unthinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unthinkable. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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