unthinkably
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Some parents, like Kim Sun, whose two daughters are in primary school, are also worried about bullying on social media, where "kids throw around unthinkably harsh insults" at each other.
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025
Eve reflects on her febrile obsession with a classmate, the unthinkably chic Frédérique, decades after they were students.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2024
While their practice may seem unthinkably extreme, sokushinbutsu exist as part of a larger religious framework that includes other ascetic acts requiring physical exertion and endurance.
From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024
The first-act highlight surveys a typically frenzied day in the life of a Hollywood shoot, during which everything must go unthinkably wrong before it can go improbably right.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2022
They must remain hidden, and give the humans no hint that they were here, or that, unthinkably, five abominations had survived the Carnage and eked out an existence here for fifteen years.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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