as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
a completely unbelievable story about why there was lipstick on his collar
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Recent Examples of unbelievable
But the show is so loaded with mysteries, and those mysteries have such destabilizing—if not fully unbelievable—solutions, that the season’s overarching question becomes: What is actually going on here?
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Judy Berman, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
But with first-team manager Mikel Arteta saying some of Dowman’s displays in training are ‘unbelievable’, the cat’s out of the bag.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Jacob Fatu’s pre-match promo was unbelievable, and very convincing.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
The Bears did the same in the basketball game to the tune of a 78-75 overtime thriller that featured some unbelievable second-half shot-making by point guard Jamal Cannady, who ended the game with 34 points on 12 of 19 shooting.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2025
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Judy Berman, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
But with first-team manager Mikel Arteta saying some of Dowman’s displays in training are ‘unbelievable’, the cat’s out of the bag.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Jacob Fatu’s pre-match promo was unbelievable, and very convincing.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
The Bears did the same in the basketball game to the tune of a 78-75 overtime thriller that featured some unbelievable second-half shot-making by point guard Jamal Cannady, who ended the game with 34 points on 12 of 19 shooting.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbelievable
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The couple were incredible parents who created a loving home for their two children, the cousins said.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Despite the incredible work that new festival heads Eugene Hernandez and Kim Yutani have done to preserve Sundance’s vitality while steeling it against the future, that brand has only been further reinforced over the last few years.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
31 Jan. 2025
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People were shocked by the war, incredulous, and grieving.—
Keith Gessen,
The New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2025
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The initial discovery was made by undergraduate researchers, who returned from the field site in Briones Regional Park earlier this year with videos of the squirrels’ behavior to show their incredulous supervisors.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Dec. 2024
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Playing a hyper-aggressive brand of tennis for three sets would be nigh impossible, especially against the master of the art.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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By 2026, the limits of Russia’s economic model will be impossible to ignore.—
Alexandra Prokopenko,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Jan. 2025
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Kevin Xu, an investor and founder of the newsletter Interconnected, says Chinese models are usually trained with as much data as possible, making pre-training bias unlikely.—
Zeyi Yang,
WIRED,
31 Jan. 2025
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However, because the female and male sharks have been without contact for more than a decade, this seems unlikely, Barrick said.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Unbelievable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbelievable. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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