unthinkable

Example Sentences

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"And it is unthinkable - but those thoughts demand to be thought and I will not hide my face. But she needs to come home now."

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Just a year ago, the idea of commodity-sensitive energy companies reaching these valuations would have been unthinkable.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

“The significant damage to critical energy infrastructure alongside the collapse in ship volume through the Strait of Hormuz were both unthinkable 3 weeks ago. Both are now realities,” the firm says.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

For a club like Tottenham, relegation in the modern era had always been completely unthinkable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy