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Recent Examples of plausibility
These rewards may cost you some pocket change in terms of plausibility and such.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Fears surrounding the financial plausibility of your dreams will hit, as Neptune and Saturn retrograde cause Venus to feel insecure on August 1.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 28 July 2025
By incorporating factual correctness into the training objective itself—via techniques like reinforcement learning from human feedback—models might learn to prioritize truth over plausibility.
—Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
If that’s the case, then the plausibility of traditional Christianity collapses, for its authority is based on the claim to have preserved intact the apostolic witness, the most reliable source of revelation.
—R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Fears surrounding the financial plausibility of your dreams will hit, as Neptune and Saturn retrograde cause Venus to feel insecure on August 1.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 28 July 2025
By incorporating factual correctness into the training objective itself—via techniques like reinforcement learning from human feedback—models might learn to prioritize truth over plausibility.
—Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
If that’s the case, then the plausibility of traditional Christianity collapses, for its authority is based on the claim to have preserved intact the apostolic witness, the most reliable source of revelation.
—R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plausibility
Noun
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That combination of technical credibility and dealmaking reach has also made Brockman an increasingly influential political player.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Whether the courts view that rift as administrative failure or unlawful negligence may determine the financial futures of a generation of borrowers—and the credibility of the agency that lent to them.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Roosevelt strategically released good news on Sundays, increasing the likelihood of getting himself front-page coverage.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Nov. 2025
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These would increase the likelihood of more collisions, much like in the movie ‘Gravity’.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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This has always been about embracing probabilities, not the luxury of following certainties.—
Sam McDowell
November 4,
Kansas City Star,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Plausibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plausibility. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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