How to Use probabilistic in a Sentence

probabilistic

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  • But soon the probabilistic method proved its worth.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • Yet all have been probabilistic — and thus predictable.
    Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025
  • So that starts to explain the issue of what’s so great about probabilistic motion.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • This points to a future where audits won’t be partial or probabilistic.
    Igor Fedulov, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In a probabilistic world, the AI does the grinding.
    Yasmeen Ahmad, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Outside the realm of games, accurate probabilistic thinking is a rare skill.
    Maria Konnikova, Wired, 23 June 2020
  • That’s in keeping with the probabilistic method’s long history.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • That flies in the face of quantum physics, because results are probabilistic, not definite.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Engineers can build probabilistic models for patterns of pixel colors from one frame to the next.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Like weather forecasts, good infectious disease forecasts are probabilistic and will be wrong some of the time.
    John Drake, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Large language models are probabilistic systems trained to predict text.
    Faisal Saeed, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • This requires thinking of the structure of a particle and what can be found within it as probabilistic in nature.
    Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2022
  • This probabilistic argument is widely known, but no one has been able to extend it to a complete proof of the conjecture.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The probabilistic code is used to control the on and off times of the voltage, based on the frequency of the pendulation.
    Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
  • This ties into maybe the most interesting thing for me in your paper, which is the concept of probabilistic thinking.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • In a probabilistic system, the same input can produce a range of outputs, all of which are potentially valid.
    Rohit Kedia, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • And no amount of prompting will turn a probabilistic text engine into a decision maker that owns outcomes.
    Stephen Wakeling, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • How does our predictable everyday world emerge from the hazy, probabilistic rules of quantum mechanics?
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In the probabilistic world, sometimes what looks broken is actually how the system learns.
    Richie Etwaru, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The right approach wraps the probabilistic engine in guardrails that manage the uncertainty.
    Yasmeen Ahmad, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • One of Erdős’s most notable contributions was to something called the probabilistic method.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
  • These systems rely on probabilistic risk scoring.
    Ethan Stone june 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2026
  • Now, picture a probabilistic system in action.
    Richie Etwaru, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This was a way to create a probabilistic multiphoton emitter.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
  • For example, probabilistic planning can forecast how load demand will evolve and where congestion will emerge.
    Matthew Green, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Metrics are less binary and more probabilistic.
    Catherine Iger, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Humans have a difficult time with probabilistic thinking, Wachter said.
    Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021
  • This produced a probabilistic forecast for each possible match in the tournament.
    Achim Zeileis, Fortune, 12 June 2026
  • The go-to is like the probabilistic model, estimating what are the probability of the next words.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2025
  • The equations used by weather forecasters are probabilistic in nature.
    Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011

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