improbable
Example Sentences
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Then came the most improbable comeback in college basketball’s modern history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
And those were the images that returned with his improbable fifth Masters victory in 2019, fused back and all, achieved at the age of 43.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
His grandfather Jerry Bush had coached at Nebraska, where in 1958 he authored an improbable victory over a Kansas team led by Wilt Chamberlain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
At least that’s what one improbable image fantasized in a recent slew of AI-generated “wedding photos” circulating online.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
The rhythmic sounds might be the recapitulation of something else—an earliest memory, a score for the transformation of inanimate, random matter in chaos into the improbable, ordered dance of living forms.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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