improbable
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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has DP World, the Middle East’s largest port operator, racing to reroute cargo around a bottleneck that once seemed improbable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
And there's the allegation that Diana had said the King was in love with his valet, which the author himself says seemed improbable.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
All of which make the sprawling district in Nevada’s rough and rocky Great Basin an improbable political bellwether.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Prince Harry, who relocates back to Britain shortly with his family, will open a new chapter in his ever-eventful life which once seemed improbable amid royal feuds, battles over security and lawsuits against UK tabloids.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
In the New Orleans show, I felt all the amusement of the improbable abnormal, but also a kind of horror that it could be so.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing improbable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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"A Quilt of a Country," Vocabulary from the argument
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"A Quilt of a Country" by Anna Quindlen
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