: not imaginable or comprehensible
unimaginable horror
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the unimaginable horrors of war
a disaster of almost unimaginable proportions
This technology would have been unimaginable five years ago.
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Un Último Sueño, Gira Los Estadios achieved the unimaginable for Morat: filling 25 stadiums, in 15 cities across 10 countries, with an attendance total of 800,000 people.
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Natalia Cano, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2024
What would have been unimaginable and unfathomable to city politicians and residents in 2014 is not a number of homicides under 200 in a year but a number over 300 annually — a number Baltimore reached in 2015 and sustained through 2022!
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Dec. 2024
Such a situation would have been unimaginable last summer.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
Harnessing the power of particle physics, Willow solved a problem in under five minutes that would take the world's fastest classical supercomputer an unimaginable 10 septillion years—that's a 1 followed by 25 zeros.
—Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Natalia Cano, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2024
What would have been unimaginable and unfathomable to city politicians and residents in 2014 is not a number of homicides under 200 in a year but a number over 300 annually — a number Baltimore reached in 2015 and sustained through 2022!
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Dec. 2024
Such a situation would have been unimaginable last summer.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
Harnessing the power of particle physics, Willow solved a problem in under five minutes that would take the world's fastest classical supercomputer an unimaginable 10 septillion years—that's a 1 followed by 25 zeros.
—Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Unimaginable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unimaginable. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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