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within the limits

ADJECTIVE
thinkable
Synonyms
WEAK
cogitable comprehendible comprehensible conceivable convincing imaginable likely possible practicable practical presumable reasonable supposable within realm of possibility
Antonyms
WEAK
impossible inconceivable unbelievable unfeasible unlikely unthinkable

Example Sentences

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For the cafe's manager, the point is to be able to offer the bar experience "but within the limits of local values".

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

Radiocarbon dating revealed that many of these paired deposits north and south of Cape Mendocino formed at nearly the same time, within the limits of dating accuracy.

From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025

Part of the oil field is within the limits of Culver City.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024

Located just outside the city of Mobile, but within the limits of Mobile County, it stretches fourteen miles long and is only a mile-and-a-half at its widest point.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2024

As Martin J. S. Rudwick puts it, "No geologist of any nationality whose work was taken seriously by other geologists advocated a timescale confined within the limits of a literalistic exegesis of Genesis."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson