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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 of unlikelihood from the Web
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If that unlikelihood wasn’t established pre-Civil War, it was certainly affirmed by both the suffragist and traditional feminist movements.
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One notes the flagrant unlikelihood of the man who most needs this book’s advice accepting it from a gentleman who wears patterned frocks and looks like their dotty Aunt Esther.
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UPDATE: Several commenters have pointed out the unlikelihood of Nikon sneaking new sensors into existing cameras.
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First Known Use of unlikelihood
15th century
UNLIKELIHOOD Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of unlikelihood for English Language Learners
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: the chance that something will not happen or not be true : the quality or state of being unlikely
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