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
The Neo is a product that was once unthinkable from a company that spent years panning the idea of netbooks and never bothered to make a budget laptop of its own.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
But for women of Austen’s circumstances, living genteel lives without actual land or ample income, employment would have been inappropriate, even scandalous (recall Philadelphia’s slippery slope scenario), and therefore unthinkable.
—Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
Some, including him, publicly called for Khamenei to resign — which was unthinkable at the time, Farahanipour said.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
Yet surrender by the militant group is unlikely, if not outright unthinkable.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
But for women of Austen’s circumstances, living genteel lives without actual land or ample income, employment would have been inappropriate, even scandalous (recall Philadelphia’s slippery slope scenario), and therefore unthinkable.
—Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
Some, including him, publicly called for Khamenei to resign — which was unthinkable at the time, Farahanipour said.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
Yet surrender by the militant group is unlikely, if not outright unthinkable.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unthinkable
Adjective
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So this guy is very good, very good, incredible.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Mar. 2026
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In the second half, Smith had a handful of incredible saves to keep the score at 2-1, including leaping up to snare a crossing pass and stopping two shots on breakaways.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But Trump’s comments indicate that’s unlikely.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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Paul was already an unlikely candidate for a franchise as traditional as The Bachelor.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
20 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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Fellow vegans in the comments were incredulous — what of the bear cub carcass Kennedy claimed to have dumped in Central Park or his lifelong interest in hunting?—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The 2023 Lahaina fire made the issue impossible to ignore.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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That’s something that the broader AI industry has so far struggled to do, partly because LLMs are typically trained on vast, messy datasets scraped from across the internet, where ownership, consent and individual contributions from millions of sources are nearly impossible to track.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
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In the 1990s, when Jackson and a bipartisan coalition reframed Africa as strategic terrain rather than charitable afterthought, dismantling that infrastructure would have been politically inconceivable.—
Alexanderia Baker-Haidara,
semafor.com,
27 Feb. 2026
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Until recently, this nightmarish scenario for Democrats seemed inconceivable.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026
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The idea of being sidelined for an entire year seemed unimaginable to him.—
Noah Poser,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Investors are banking that AI will spur a productivity boom and deliver unimaginable corporate profits, but that future could be far off.—
Lila Shroff,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Some of our goals were unbelievable.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
16 Mar. 2026
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And just the time management is unbelievable.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Unthinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unthinkable. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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