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Recent Examples of unbelievable The 29-year-old Stanford alum’s iron play was unbelievable. Brody Miller, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025 Attending ceremonies for all the awards the film has been nominated for this season—from the Golden Globes, to the SAG Awards last night—has been another unbelievable accomplishment for the 23-year-old. Christian Allaire, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2025 Another reason that Ukraine had been ruled out as a possible perpetrator was the unbelievable political risk: a country defending itself from invasion and desperately reliant on foreign military aid could hardly afford to blow up the energy infrastructure of one of its primary Western backers. Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 The commitment, the investment that all of these teams have displayed every night, in my mind, has been an unbelievable celebration of hockey. Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unbelievable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbelievable
Adjective
  • There are countless women running incredible kitchens.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The group has scored an incredible six No. 1 hits on the Hot 100, which certifies the South Korean stars as among the most commercially successful acts of the past decade.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • An incredulous Ken Jeong then asks her if Griffin introduced her to Waititi.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Mediumship does not belong to some incredulous or demented margins; it can be practiced ethically by individuals trained through empirical standards to address the uncanny and perplexing phenomena beyond our five-sense world.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Given his excellent contact and batted ball profile, a .254 AVG is at his low-end, and .300 is hardly impossible.
    Jake Ciely, The Athletic, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But dodging it’s nearly impossible for most New Yorkers, so the dread just keeps simmering.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Furthermore, with Florian Wirtz walking off the pitch with an injury today, a Leverkusen comeback is even more unlikely.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Season 1 of the series, which follows the unlikely romance between an agnostic podcaster and a rabbi, spent six weeks in Netflix’s Global English Top 10 TV List and reached the Top 10 in 89 countries.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Unbelievable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbelievable. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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