adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enormous/considerable/incredible odds
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He survived a night in the cold water against incredible odds.
remarkable/considerable/incredible etc feat
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They climbed the mountain in 28 days, a remarkable feat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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almost
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That she should spare a first glance, let alone a second, on this man was almost incredible .
just
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The hassle will be just incredible , man.
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It's just incredible to try to create their vibrato and note choice on guitar.
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To hold this little thing in your arms and feel a tremendous love and protection towards it is just incredible .
most
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Mr. Hamilton I find that, from start to finish, a most incredible contribution.
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We went inside, and there ii was, the most incredible thing I had ever seen.
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Main made me the most incredible clothes.
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You can turn them up to the most incredible volume and strum them very lightly, and you get a really lovely sound.
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We turned north along the Shyok gorge and passed through some of the most incredible scenery that any of us had witnessed.
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The most incredible case involved a guy in Harrow who was advertising for men as a blonde woman called Susannah.
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It was the most incredible place we had ever seen.
quite
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But in fact the similarities between you and Sybil are quite incredible - suspiciously so.
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It is really quite incredible that, after ten months, Councillor Buchanan should still be unaware of such basic facts.
■ NOUN
amount
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In 1988, 2,019 Rottweilers were registered from 204 litters, which seems an incredible amount of Rottweilers per head of population.
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One year ago, Paul Pierce was under an incredible amount of pressure to make a decision.
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Clearly, you can get a starter home and not pay an incredible amount of money.
feat
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Stale soul purifier Souls, like bodies and minds, are capable of incredible feats of endurance.
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It was an incredible feat of engineering, dug by hand.
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It would be an incredible feat for a side built from unsung players.
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He attempted to envisage and explain the incredible feat of navigation undertaken by Captain Bligh after the Mutiny.
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It's an exciting life by any standards and this description of Watson's incredible feats certainly makes exciting reading.
speed
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It was moving at an incredible speed through the green desert.
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Then it zipped away at what seemed like incredible speed and vanished from view.
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Many unattached skis went sliding off down the hill at incredible speed .
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A wall of dark water, approaching our port side at an incredible speed .
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Pattern cutters, fitters, sewing hands and their assistants all worked at an incredible speed .
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It grew bigger with incredible speed , she was whizzing towards it.
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The computer can produce great volumes of rubbish at incredible speed .
thing
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In this time some incredible things in terms of animal distribution and evolution have taken place there.
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This is just an incredible thing .
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You think and say incredible things .
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We went inside, and there ii was, the most incredible thing I had ever seen.
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But he took charge of men; organized them; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things .
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You see all these incredible things they do, and some of it rubs off on you.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an incredible story of survival
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It is incredible that the police still haven't caught him.
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She's an incredible dancer.
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The divorce rate in the U.S. is pretty incredible .
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This factory was capable of producing an incredible 100 cars per hour.
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Winning the championship was an incredible feeling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After beating incredible odds to prove himself a classroom genius, Steven has been cruelly snubbed by prospective employers.
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Do you know-this is pretty incredible actually-I once saw Ringo Starr.
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For one incredible moment, Merrill knew a stab of envy of Elise.
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He has an incredible understanding of what needs to be done.
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It's an incredible confidence-inspiring drive.
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It is really quite incredible that, after ten months, Councillor Buchanan should still be unaware of such basic facts.
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The panorama from this point was incredible , a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree vision of natural grandeur.