Examples of unlikelihood in a Sentence
Given the unlikelihood of a tax increase, these programs will probably run out of funding next year.
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Further dimming the prospects of peace is the unlikelihood that any of the developments that could change Putin’s calculus will materialize.
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Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2022
The unlikelihood of this turn of events—a niece being the first to find her uncle’s corpse—dissipates into the dynamic of the call: Shula’s bored, patient matter-of-factness, her father’s jolly, scattershot drunkenness.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
The story of Sara’s alleged suicide is a cascade of low-probability events blurring together in a pool of statistical unlikelihood.
—Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
Surprising Fact The woman initially pursued criminal charges against McGregor for the incident in 2020, though Irish prosecutors declined to take up the case while citing a high unlikelihood of convicting the fighter, according to RTÉ.
—Ty Roush, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2022
The unlikelihood of this turn of events—a niece being the first to find her uncle’s corpse—dissipates into the dynamic of the call: Shula’s bored, patient matter-of-factness, her father’s jolly, scattershot drunkenness.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
The story of Sara’s alleged suicide is a cascade of low-probability events blurring together in a pool of statistical unlikelihood.
—Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
Surprising Fact The woman initially pursued criminal charges against McGregor for the incident in 2020, though Irish prosecutors declined to take up the case while citing a high unlikelihood of convicting the fighter, according to RTÉ.
—Ty Roush, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Unlikelihood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unlikelihood. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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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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