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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With the unlikelihood of Saudi Arabia catching any strays, WWE talent arrived in Riyadh this week with no incident.
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Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
With the unlikelihood of the draft providing them a rotation player, the Lakers will continue to build their team in other ways, from free agency to trades.
—Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
Further dimming the prospects of peace is the unlikelihood that any of the developments that could change Putin’s calculus will materialize.
—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
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Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
With the unlikelihood of the draft providing them a rotation player, the Lakers will continue to build their team in other ways, from free agency to trades.
—Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
Further dimming the prospects of peace is the unlikelihood that any of the developments that could change Putin’s calculus will materialize.
—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
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“Unlikelihood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unlikelihood. Accessed 11 Jul. 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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