as in incredulous
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
tried to explain her weeklong disappearance with an incredible tale of abduction by a total stranger
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Recent Examples of incredible
Hair color specialist and salon owner Sue Tyrrell created this incredible feat, which melts from naturally dark brown to fiery copper strands.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2026
This variation on the Martini, named for a stage production that came out in 1941, highlights the incredible versatility of gin.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
Discover Blue Mesa and other incredible views of the Painted Desert.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
Lviv is just an incredible city.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2026
This variation on the Martini, named for a stage production that came out in 1941, highlights the incredible versatility of gin.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
Discover Blue Mesa and other incredible views of the Painted Desert.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
Lviv is just an incredible city.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incredible
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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After such a short time to have our own stadium is unbelievable.—
Michelle Kaufman
April 3,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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This is an unbelievable technical accomplishment.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Another surgery swapped out her breast implants to erase her shoulder pain in 2022, Dishell said, but doctors warned her then that her other pain was unlikely to improve.—
Brett Kelman,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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But McKinnon, who runs the $14 billion digital identity management company Okta, adds that CEOs are unlikely to get the answer from their in-house IT experts.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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Many of Florida’s buildings face aging materials, punishing weather, and deferred maintenance that quietly compound until conditions become impossible to ignore and threaten residents’ safety.—
Keegan A. Berry,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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The trustworthiness of nearly every website, inbox, and bank account rests on the assumption that these two problems are impossible to solve.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Now we’re bifurcated, with roughly a third of our households not meeting self-sufficiency standards, and more than a third achieving wealth that was unimaginable a generation ago.—
Russell Hancock,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
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David Kennedy has spent more than 27 years at Dell Technologies—an almost unimaginable tenure in an era when many Gen Z workers see changing companies as the surest path to advancement.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
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For most of baseball’s history, formal affiliation with any form of gambling was inconceivable.—
Michael Delayo,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
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Perhaps displacement resides in these inconceivable connections, in these scandalous imprecisions.—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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To see a new collection featuring early arcade games from the 1980s, with Defender as its jewel, would be a fantastic way to honor its 50th anniversary in 2031.—
Daryl Baxter,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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And Tim is a fantastic manager.—
Alex Crippen,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2026
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Because these interviews are edited and condensed, the parts of it that get cut out will retroactively make those parts of this present moment sort of ridiculous.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Recently, despite their consistent and ridiculous denials, it was found that Iran had built numerous missiles capable of reaching all over Europe.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Incredible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incredible. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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