as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
it's unconceivable that a once-promising actor could end up this way
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Recent Examples of unconceivable
Keep releases have been, but that seems unconceivable.
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2022
My homeland had put me through hell, and much worse, had done unconceivable atrocities, genocide even, in neighboring countries.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2022
My homeland had put me through hell, and much worse, had done unconceivable atrocities, genocide even, in neighboring countries.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unconceivable
Adjective
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What the staff and workers have done in this span of time has been incredible.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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As pontiff, Leo wields incredible power and influence — but in truth, the message isn’t new.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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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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
Adjective
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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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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
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
Adjective
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In Kafka, change is unthinkable.—
Giles Harvey,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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In December, when 42 teams learned their opponents in the group stage, Italy had to wait four more months to know whether its previously unthinkable World Cup drought would be broken or extended.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
30 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
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“Unconceivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unconceivable. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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