Definition of deniability
:the ability to deny something especially on the basis of being officially uninformed
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But on Wednesday evening, Zuckerberg’s plausible deniability—which was never all that plausible, given that no one has ever toured a factory without declaring a plan to run for higher office six months later—finally became implausible.
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There are limits to our ability to assign attribution for incidents in cybersecurity, which suggests that future information operations may be able to operate under the cloak of relative anonymity - or at least plausible deniability.
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He's got plausible deniability that anything unsavory happened — after all, who is going to contradict that?
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According to Daniel, one of two Americans who work at Desire Pearl selling vacation packages, the obfuscation allows for a level of discretion, even deniability.
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The Trump campaign’s plausible deniability was never all that plausible to begin with, but these revelations have smashed it to dust.
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The Process was transparent but Hinkie always left himself, and as extension the NBA, the means for plausible deniability.
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This provides a measure of plausible deniability for actions that the Kremlin does not want to be linked to publicly.
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Generally, lawmakers like to keep their personal opinions of one another to themselves—or, at the very least, to express them with enough subtlety to ensure plausible deniability later.
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First Known Use of deniability
1973
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