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conceivable

[kuhn-see-vuh-buhl]

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adjective

capable of being conceived; imaginable.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English. See conceive, -able

Related forms

con·ceiv·a·bil·i·ty, con·ceiv·a·ble·ness, noun

con·ceiv·a·bly, adverb

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We cannot pay for every conceivable procedure that every conceivable person could conceivably want".

The editor certainly knows, and it's conceivable that s/he would answer the question if you e-mailed.

Billions of people collaborated around every conceivable shared interest.

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We cannot pay for every conceivable procedure that every conceivable person could conceivably want".

The editor certainly knows, and it's conceivable that s/he would answer the question if you e-mailed.

Billions of people collaborated around every conceivable shared interest.

Since then people have trekked to the pole in almost every conceivable way to make it more of a challenge.

It is now conceivable that you could one day take a particle in the real world and teleport it into a quantum computer.

And in fact there seemed to be absolutely no conceivable connection between architecture and the driving forces in society.

It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.

What, for example, is the conceivable value of exposing the.

Modern physics has certainly extended human understanding in ways that would scarcely have been conceivable only a century ago.

The summit is ringed by unprecedented security against attacks from every conceivable quarter.

Also every conceivable system has both a beginning and.

Sonically, it's drastically better than the iPod in every conceivable way.

Faces, breasts, shoulders and arms seem to detach themselves from bodies and hurl themselves at us from every conceivable angle.

But the hypothetical particles are too small and the other universes too distant to be detected by any conceivable experiment.

But no such possibility seems conceivable at present.

It is conceivable that such self-reward helped to lead ancient peoples to make music.

Ellenbogen says it's certainly conceivable that spindles play a dual role.

And since then the design has been knocked off at every conceivable price in every possible material, including plastic.

Toss in a revision or two and it is conceivable that this might mark the start of a recession.

The industry insists that it is trustworthy and can manage all conceivable risks.

Feuerstein will fly in every conceivable configuration with and without autothrottles during the test flights.

Writing law to cover every conceivable form of violence to be banned is obviously impossible.

Indeed it is conceivable that a bank could be recapitalised over a weekend.

Thousands upon thousands of radio stations in every conceivable genre.

Brown then spent three months running computer simulations to calculate odds and a pay schedule for every conceivable hand.

It is an armory of prefabricated weapons against every conceivable invader.

And it is conceivable that this set-up could remain in place afterwards.

The current spatial periphery of the universe is, theoretically, unobservable and therefore not realistically conceivable.

Indeed, it is conceivable that every avatar other than oneself is a bot.

He had generated too many scenarios without conceivable resolutions.

But it is also conceivable that some youth markets will become exceedingly lucrative.

We were far from town and any conceivable human source of said noise.

Hutton, however, believed that modern rock formations resulted from violent upheavals conceivable only in terms of deep time.

No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease.

On the best allowance, there are too few conceivable advantages to measure against this deadweight of clear loss.

There are tens of millions of anecdotes out there to support almost any conceivable traditional practice from any culture.

The vast literature on children and child psychology contains arguments about every conceivable child-rearing issue.

He did neither, it turned out, although both appeared conceivable.

It is conceivable that the economy could recover so quickly that unspent stimulus money isn't needed.

It is certainly conceivable that the remains were of homo erectus people that intentionally bred themselves smaller.

It is not conceivable that because of our trade agreements with other.

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The other two options, however, are both conceivable.

There is also only one conceivable outcome when an enlightened mind argues with a religious person.

The defense blitzed from every conceivable angle, sending linebackers and defensive backs.

Any conceivable tax would fall far short of equating to a hundredfold.

Certainly there is no conceivable set of scientific observations that could substantiate.

The new standards have entered almost every conceivable field of investment.

Japan has no such diplomatic clout-and only three conceivable ways to gain any in the near future.

Waste handlers have provided skeptics with every conceivable reason to distrust.

No conceivable claim to global power, economic or military.

But it is conceivable that limited amounts could have found their way into specialty markets.

With all of this in mind it is easily conceivable that slightly different data can result in a bit of a reshuffle.

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As the orders increase, the limits of what is conceivable in private air travel keep being stretched.

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World English Dictionary

conceivable (kənˈsiːvəb^əl)

—*adj*
	capable of being understood, believed, or imagined; possible

conceiva'bility

—n

con'ceivableness

—n

con'ceivably

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

conceivable

1580s, from conceive + -able. Originally in a now-obs. sense "that can be received." Meaning "that can be imagined" is attested from 1620s (in conceivably).

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