as in intolerable
more than can be put up with
this heat is unbearable—when are we going to get air-conditioning?
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Recent Examples of unbearable
What feels unbearable in the short term can become more manageable with time.
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2025
Linda may stretch, but not infinitely, and as her nerves fray, her every relationship—old and new—becomes increasingly unbearable.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
Food inflation in Russia is around 25%, interest rates on loans is a usurious 25%, and lending has come to a near complete halt, making ordinary life unbearable and unaffordable for normal Russians.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
Hamas, meanwhile, continues to exert military control while inflicting terror, despite being unable to provide basic governance, making life for civilians unbearable.
—Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2025
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2025
Linda may stretch, but not infinitely, and as her nerves fray, her every relationship—old and new—becomes increasingly unbearable.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
Food inflation in Russia is around 25%, interest rates on loans is a usurious 25%, and lending has come to a near complete halt, making ordinary life unbearable and unaffordable for normal Russians.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
Hamas, meanwhile, continues to exert military control while inflicting terror, despite being unable to provide basic governance, making life for civilians unbearable.
—Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unbearable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbearable
Adjective
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Yet if the Putin-Trump deal is intolerable to the government and people of Ukraine, the country will have to.—
Mick Ryan,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Feb. 2025
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Canada is retaliating, auto industry will suffer While China has yet to retaliate to defend such retailers, for Canada, the tariffs are considered so intolerable that the country immediately ordered tariffs on beverages, cosmetics, and paper products flowing from the US, AP News reported.—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The best among us rarely know what to say, how to look, how to be there for a friend who is enduring something unendurable.—
Amanda Nguyen,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
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Promises her who knows what, seeing that she’s got to drink herself to oblivion constantly and choke down pills for her unendurable pain.—
Christian Kracht,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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This is due to the bodywork, interior work, and intense customization required to retrofit a new drivetrain under an old body.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
8 Mar. 2025
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Last year, intense protests and riots against immigration erupted throughout England after 17-year-old Axel Muganwa Rudakubana stabbed and killed young girls at a dance class.—
Abigail Anthony,
National Review,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Maybe that was just a coincidence, but the response was overwhelming as people from all over the world thanked him and sent their support.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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India can also be overwhelming, for locals and tourists alike, so treat our list of the 17 historic buildings of India as your one-stop guide when planning a trip.—
Shalbha Sarda,
Architectural Digest,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The staff forecasts and tracks tornadoes, hurricanes, and extreme rainfall events, and is also responsible for predicting solar storms and protecting the fish, crabs, and other species that help feed the nation.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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For Rico Nasty, extreme was the name of the game, with some needlepoint glam by way of her acupuncturist.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Turns out this gang of privileged, white Georgetown students is kind of insufferable!—
Eddie Mouradian,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2025
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His father’s lectures on Roman literature and Latin case syntax have produced some of the most insufferable students at St. Petersburg University, much like the characters in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.—
Andrew Ryvkin,
airmail.news,
31 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Conservatives and Republicans in Congress continue to claim that the cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits is an insupportable burden on America, so benefits need to be cut, though President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to preserve entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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Unless the distress among the German people should become insupportable, any sudden advance movement on their part that relied on force would be doomed to failure without armed support and assistance from outside.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Dec. 2011
Adjective
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This is, on paper, a terrible idea for all involved.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Photo: Will Hart/NBC via Getty Images The Good-to-Know Smash is largely considered terrible.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Unbearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbearable. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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