improbable
Example Sentences
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The Improbable Rise of Baseball’s Unhittable Pitcher: San Diego Padres closer Mason Miller has struck out 71% of the batters he has faced this season.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
Critics, perhaps unsurprisingly, view this as Mission Improbable.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
Improbable scenarios are part of this show’s bargain with viewers.
From Salon • Nov. 19, 2025
Organised by the journal Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe groups, the 34-year-old Ig Nobel awards 10 prizes annually, aiming to ”make people laugh, then think… celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative”.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
Improbable as it seemed, she checked it for keyholes.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
Vocabulary lists containing improbable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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"A Quilt of a Country," Vocabulary from the argument
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"A Quilt of a Country" by Anna Quindlen
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