Used in a Sentence

implausibly

How to use implausibly in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for implausibly.

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An implausibly powerful gamma ray flashlight flicking on and off would let you do this. Get the beam powerful enough, and it will have a gravitational field.

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Quick take

not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of implausibly gathered in one view.

adverb

not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for implausibly.

adverb

not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains"

Example sentences

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An implausibly powerful gamma ray flashlight flicking on and off would let you do this. Get the beam powerful enough, and it will have a gravitational field.

2

Sanity check fail: 10mg is an implausibly small dose, so small you'd have to grind the pills and measure tiny quantities of powder. Are you sure you're not thinking of a different drug, or off an order of magnitude?

3

I’ve had black girlfriends and might not implausibly have ended up married to one of them, > my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies. My forebrain, meanwhile, was all like “What is up with you, hindbrain?”

4

He's making cars which are implausibly high-tech, ridiculously well armoured, have inexplicably low ground clearance, and look rad. Elon Musk is Batman, and i claim my five pounds.

5

And on Twitter it's similar: people who follow an implausibly large number of people in the hopes those people will follow back end up following me temporarily, hoping I'll follow back. Is the amount of rep a person gives out visible on their profile?

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All the evidence is that nature does implausibly difficult computations all the time. Multiplying by pi has nothing on calculating the evolution of a quantum system.

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The purpose of the comment seems clear enough to me: to point out two claims made by the article that seem implausibly optimistic: 1. That i18n "just happens", which as fuzzix says is surely impossible unless Tcl includes magical machine translation facilities.

8

My girlfriend had gotten into playing some stupid Facebook version of Boggle and I just wanted to see her face when I came out of nowhere with implausibly high scores. I didn't think hard about the problem, just reached for the tool I know best and implemented the first obvious approach that came to mind.

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Joshua's telling characterises pg/ the modocracy as being almost implausibly high-handed.

10

It is undoubtedly the case that Armstrong's performances, where he convincingly beat known dopers and delivered power outputs that are thought implausibly high, deserve serious scrutiny. So too, do the performances of many other sportsmen.

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Given the amount of planning Snowden put into this, and that he only had 4 weeks at Booz Allen, the timetable for having a revelation that he wanted to become a whistleblower is almost implausibly compressed. It seems very plausible that he knew what he wanted to do before he took the job.

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Between them, and compute clusters not implausibly denominated in acres, a teeny tiny little flaw might be enough, if they think you deserve the effort. [1] On a tangent, has anyone explored the implications of a "give us some valid certs/signing keys for $whoever and lie to everyone who asks" NSL to one of their domestic CAs?

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She's exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting. She also lacks any realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws either that or her "flaws" are obviously meant to be endearing."

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This isn't CSI. You don't just throw encrypted text at an implausibly attractive IT guy and wait for him to furrow his brow, declare that it's military-grade encryption that will take him a little while, and then have him decrypt it by the end of the next commercial break. PCI-compliant encryption is the sort of thing that, barring incredible leaps in technology or the discovery of a significant algorithmic weakness, will never be crackable in our lifetime.

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When confronted with proof, the founder of the security company denied astroturfing, denied knowing the hacker, and implausibly claimed the anonymous hacker must have been using his company's anonymous browsing service. The same security company founder who spent three years in jail for phone phreaking, because he was convicting of hacking and defrauding profit.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use implausibly in a sentence?

An implausibly powerful gamma ray flashlight flicking on and off would let you do this. Get the beam powerful enough, and it will have a gravitational field.

What does implausibly mean?

not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains"

What part of speech is implausibly?

implausibly is commonly used as adverb.