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She gave the teacher an implausible excuse for not having completed her homework.implausible = not seeming believable
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I stared at the Rockies from my bedroom window and was struck by how implausible they seemed. (source)implausible = unbelievable
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What she'd described was so implausible.† (source)
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The Japanese sealed their camps from outside information and went to some lengths to convince their captives of Allied annihilation, first by trumpeting Japanese victories, and later, when victories stopped coming, by inventing stories of Allied losses and ridiculously implausible Japanese feats.† (source)
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Having dedicated the first several years to a study of the French (covering their idioms and forms of address, the personalities of Napoleon, Richelieu, and Talleyrand, the essence of the Enlightenment, the genius of Impressionism, and their prevailing aptitude for je ne sail quoi), the Count and Osip spent the next few years studying the British (covering the necessity of tea, the implausible rules of cricket, the etiquette of foxhunting, their relentless if well-deserved pride in Shakespeare, and the all-encompassing, overriding importance of the pub).† (source)
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Again, Langdon forced himself to consider the implausible.† (source)
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His story at trial was so implausible that it was easy to believe that he had been pressured to testify falsely.† (source)
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Despite its medical implausibility, this story had haunted Ben ever since.† (source)
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As they stood, though, they saw from their full height what was below the sky, namely that they were in a city, with a row of white buildings opposite, each perfectly painted and maintained and implausibly like the next, and in front of each of these buildings, rising from rectangular gaps in a pavement that was paved with rectangular flagstones, or concrete laid in the manner of flagstones, were trees, cherry trees, with buds and a few white blossoms, as though it had snowed recently and the snow had caught in the boughs and leaves, all along the street, in tree after tree after tree, and they stood and stared at this, for it seemed almost unreal.† (source)
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Blue spangles, white spangles, tracers, cascades of white lights and Christmas stars, blazing, impenetrable, no more to do with me than the implausible pinky diamond glittering on my hand.† (source)
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I only had to add, "pushed him out of the tree" and the chain of implausibility would be complete, "then I ..." just those few words and perhaps this dungeon nightmare would end.† (source)
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In the angled windowpane she saw the reflection of her pale face beneath the checkered scarf, below this the blue and white stripes of her coarse prisoner's smock; blinking, weeping, gazing straight through her own diaphanous image, she glimpsed the magical white horse again, grazing now, the meadow, the sheep beyond, and further still, as if at the very edge of the world, the rim of the drab gray autumnal woods, transmuted by the music's incandescence into a towering frieze of withering but majestic foliage, implausibly beautiful, aglow with some immanent grace.† (source)
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Every excuse sounded more implausible than the last.† (source)
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I saw neither implausibility nor contradiction in this story.† (source)
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With an implausible display of calm, she summarized for Briony.† (source)
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"For the love of God, give me your clothes!" said the marquis, the implausibility of his predicament penetrating the haze of alcohol.† (source)
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