adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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That sort of mistake was almost inconceivable , in an age of mass communications.
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It was then that a plan came to his low mind so wicked that you will think it almost inconceivable .
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Life here in this part of Maine is almost inconceivable without wood and woods.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's inconceivable that university officials would fire someone as talented and loyal as Professor Schultz.
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Many people thought it was inconceivable that the crash could have been an accident.
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The amount of time and money they have wasted on the project is inconceivable .
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The slaughter to thousands of innocent US citizens would have been inconceivable until recently.
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When I was a boy, having a bath every day was an inconceivable luxury.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have too many rejections in my files, and another would be inconceivable at this time.
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It is inconceivable that any corpus should provide occurrences of all of these possibilities.
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It took Mitchell a second to understand what she had done, this inconceivable act; that she had fouled him.
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Language is central to individual human development; human society is inconceivable without it.
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Life here in this part of Maine is almost inconceivable without wood and woods.
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The opening of a score of nuclear sites in some six years by conventional administrative procedures alone was inconceivable .
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To him it was inconceivable to be at sea without trailing a hook in the water.
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To me it seems inconceivable that a single human life on earth is the beginning and end of it all.