unthinkably

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Recent Examples of unthinkably His Saturday-night blowout in Amsterdam officially kicked off the first Harry tour season since his record-breaking Love On Tour signed off in July 2023 — an unthinkably long layoff for the ultimate mega–pop crowd-crusher. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026 Prior to 2015, that ad would have struck almost everyone as unthinkably crass and disturbing. Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026 The difference between first and second place in several events at the 2026 Winter Games has come down to margins almost unthinkably small — a matter of tenths of a point, hundredths of a second or, in one case, a tiebreaker that came down to a judges’ ruling. Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026 The question is whether every living thing would be wiped out (maybe other than some cockroaches) or if the impact would be something merely unthinkably horrible. Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026 If this is true then the ancient greenhouse world of the dinosaurs, lasting into the early age of mammals and already known to be sweltering, was even more unthinkably hot than previously appreciated. Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unthinkably
Adverb
  • The senior-citizen ballers, whose core lineup still incredibly includes Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards, may even take things on the road.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • Graham and his sister shared an incredibly close relationship.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 13 July 2026
Adverb
  • The whole story is this unbelievably wide variety of people who improbably come together.
    NBC news, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • The nylon uppers make the style unbelievably lightweight on foot, while super minimal outsoles (which somehow sneak in support from EVA cushioning) add to the retro runner’s supreme flexibility.
    Olivia Cigliano, InStyle, 3 July 2026
Adverb
  • The 3,200-megapixel camera, built by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, can take an almost inconceivably high-definition image of the sky every 40 seconds or so, and Rubin’s giant mirror offers an enormous, panoramic vista.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
  • Some writers recognized the team’s inconceivably heavy burden over a few short days.
    Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2026

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“Unthinkably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unthinkably. Accessed 14 Jul. 2026.

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