Examples of unlikelihood in a Sentence
Given the unlikelihood of a tax increase, these programs will probably run out of funding next year.
Recent Examples on the Web
The story of my breast cancer diagnosis is full of unlikelihoods.
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Lauren Gray, SELF, 1 Apr. 2024
Powell on Sunday doubled down on the unlikelihood of a cut next month.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
Today, given a possible Republican majority ahead and the unlikelihood that so many Republicans would defect again, ratifying a successor treaty is a dubious prospect at best.
—John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Fight from the start The NIH reports that, because of the high unlikelihood of survival, a newborn with trisomy 18 should be considered a patient with a hopeless outlook who ought not to be subjected to invasive procedures.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2024
But the sheer unlikelihood of the story will leave many of us asking one final question: WTF?
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
Rather than rely on assumptions about the unlikelihood of a full-scale war, Western leaders who doubted the prospect of a Russian invasion should have paid more attention to his rhetoric about Ukraine.
—Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
Both the budget and the timeline for this project are likely very ambitious, given the amount of coordination needed and the unlikelihood that Europe's Ariane 6 rocket will have the spare launch capacity to get hundreds of satellites into low-Earth orbit starting in the mid-2020s.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
And so the coronavirus panic led to fear-inducing measures targeting just one of the many threats to human health, with hardly a thought for the collateral damage or even the unlikelihood that business lockdowns and school closures could somehow manage to stop the virus.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2022
Lauren Gray, SELF, 1 Apr. 2024
Powell on Sunday doubled down on the unlikelihood of a cut next month.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
Today, given a possible Republican majority ahead and the unlikelihood that so many Republicans would defect again, ratifying a successor treaty is a dubious prospect at best.
—John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Fight from the start The NIH reports that, because of the high unlikelihood of survival, a newborn with trisomy 18 should be considered a patient with a hopeless outlook who ought not to be subjected to invasive procedures.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2024
But the sheer unlikelihood of the story will leave many of us asking one final question: WTF?
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
Rather than rely on assumptions about the unlikelihood of a full-scale war, Western leaders who doubted the prospect of a Russian invasion should have paid more attention to his rhetoric about Ukraine.
—Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
Both the budget and the timeline for this project are likely very ambitious, given the amount of coordination needed and the unlikelihood that Europe's Ariane 6 rocket will have the spare launch capacity to get hundreds of satellites into low-Earth orbit starting in the mid-2020s.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
And so the coronavirus panic led to fear-inducing measures targeting just one of the many threats to human health, with hardly a thought for the collateral damage or even the unlikelihood that business lockdowns and school closures could somehow manage to stop the virus.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2022
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“Unlikelihood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unlikelihood. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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unlikelihood
noun
un·like·li·hood
ˌən-ˈlī-klē-ˌhu̇d 
ˈən-
: the quality or state of being unlikely
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