unthinkable

Example Sentences

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Placing the concerns of the entertainment industry at the center of the city’s mayoral race would have been unthinkable even in the last election cycle.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

The association says that it is calling for "tolerance and perspective to prevent any further, unthinkable escalation".

From BBC • May 15, 2026

In these kinds of cases, family members are often left asking an unthinkable question: Would their loved one still be alive if they’d received the necessary care?

From Salon • May 15, 2026

The statement concluded: "We urge tolerance and perspective to prevent any further, unthinkable escalation."

From BBC • May 15, 2026

At the very center of the problem is the naked cold deadness of one’s own self, the only reality in nature of which we can have absolute certainty, and it is unmentionable, unthinkable.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas