thinkable

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Recent Examples of thinkable And that would not have been thinkable 10 years ago. Ben Smith, semafor.com, 16 Jan. 2026 The only thing that might have stopped us from accepting this kind of corruption as thinkable would be if such acceptance upended our overall understanding of how constitutional democracy functions. Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2025 This bet-the-business kind of change would not previously have been thinkable. Glenn Katz, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 That's but one of the once-unthinkable scenarios that seem more thinkable than ever. Axios, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for thinkable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinkable
Adjective
  • And the senior running back has a knack for making plays in every conceivable way.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Breaking the £300m barrier in player sales for the second consecutive summer is very conceivable.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • But Maddy can’t run away forever, and her past comes crashing into her new Italian life in the most chaotic way imaginable.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The hillsides were covered in every imaginable shade of green.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Lauren, at least, seemed like the more plausible repeat customer.
    Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
  • When generating text, large language models pick each next word from a set of plausible candidates.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Sunlight Place the plant in a sunny window, south-facing if possible, and give it four to six hours of sunlight each day.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Carley Garner, a commodity market strategist and broker at DeCarley Trading, said smaller futures and oil ETFs such as the United States Oil Fund (ticker USO) have made speculation possible for traders at almost any level of experience or funding.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026

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“Thinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinkable. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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