How to Use unthinkable in a Sentence
unthinkable
adjective
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Just as in the bad old days of the Cold War, we are being forced to think the unthinkable.
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Doyle McManuswashington Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2022
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Back in the old-timey days, killing off the star of a series was unthinkable.
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Julie Hinds,
Detroit Free Press,
10 Apr. 2024
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Back in the old-timey days, killing off the star of a series was unthinkable.
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Julie Hinds,
Detroit Free Press,
26 Mar. 2024
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A decade ago, a split quiver was unthinkable for all but a few.
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Drew Zieff,
Outside Online,
18 Oct. 2022
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And in the fall of 1972, the Miami Dolphins did the unthinkable.
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Wsj Books Staff,
WSJ,
31 Aug. 2022
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The idea of mocking them to their faces would have been unthinkable.
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Mitch Albom,
Detroit Free Press,
10 Sep. 2023
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The specter of a debt default is no longer unthinkable.
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Jeff Sommer,
New York Times,
11 Aug. 2023
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Last year, the idea of a rock concert that size would have been unthinkable.
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Kirkland Crawford,
Detroit Free Press,
15 Nov. 2021
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The notion of not having a train route up the coast, for the most part, has long been unthinkable in San Diego.
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Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2024
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Just 10 years ago, a line like that would be unthinkable.
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Rob Ledonne,
Billboard,
4 Mar. 2022
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In those days, the Final Four was played on back to back days, unthinkable now.
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Lori Riley,
courant.com,
30 Mar. 2022
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Rhaenyra does the unthinkable in this week’s episode, and she’s not disowned or dead — yet.
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Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Sep. 2022
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That would’ve been unthinkable in the nineteen-fifties.
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Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2022
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For a band as extreme as ours, that would have been unthinkable.
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Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2024
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Less than a year ago, such a broadcast would have been unthinkable.
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Salar Abdoh,
The Atlantic,
7 Oct. 2023
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For those of us who grew up on network TV, this seems unthinkable.
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Scott D. Pierce,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
30 Oct. 2022
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Joel has done something unthinkable—and he's done it out of love.
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Evan Romano,
Men's Health,
12 Mar. 2023
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Yet to others, the idea that the swastika could be redeemed is unthinkable.
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Deepa Bharath,
Anchorage Daily News,
27 Nov. 2022
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That kind of support would have been unthinkable a few decades ago.
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Annie Karni,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2023
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It's been just over half a year since Vladimir Putin did the unthinkable and invaded Ukraine.
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CBS News,
28 Aug. 2022
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The deployment of Patriot missiles to Ukraine would have been unthinkable at the start of the war.
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Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
14 Dec. 2022
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Two decades ago, such a weekend in Auburn was unthinkable.
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al,
2 Dec. 2022
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The damage that he's done to this country is unthinkable.
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Erin Doherty,
Axios,
19 July 2024
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Being benched in the fourth game seemed unthinkable when the Hurricanes kicked off the season.
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Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Sep. 2022
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In a basement of what had once been a children's summer camp, the unthinkable.
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ABC News,
10 Apr. 2022
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The notion that an artist as successful as Joel might stay in the dark for so long could be unthinkable.
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Jenna Wang,
Peoplemag,
14 Mar. 2024
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Only a few years back that would have been unthinkable.
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John Hopewell,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2022
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In 1999, a Danish physicist named Lene Hau did the unthinkable.
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Joshua Hawkins,
BGR,
16 Aug. 2022
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The women's choices divide them, but both face moral dilemmas and must make unthinkable sacrifices.
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Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
2 Oct. 2024
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My heart goes out to everyone who has experienced unthinkable loss.
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NBC News,
3 Oct. 2024
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