implausible
Example Sentences
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It’s not the most likely scenario, but it’s not totally implausible either.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Lawyers for Sullivan described her account as implausible.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
The broader biographical facts are obeyed, but “Amadeus” is fundamentally ahistorical, and sometimes implausible: It is to be trusted only as television.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Its basic premise—destroying a patient’s blood and immune-making system and replacing it with another person’s—was considered implausible and even reckless by some experts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Experiments have shown that statements like the ones in the left column, which deny a plausible belief, are easier to understand than statements in the right column, which deny an implausible belief.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing implausible
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