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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 ensures long-term political credibility and shields against budgetary raids.—
Josh Green,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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In his remarks, Moss cast doubt on the credibility of that defense, repeatedly questioning the quick-twitch decision to demand that NPR no longer run the distribution system after such a longstanding arrangement.—
NPR,
NPR,
30 Oct. 2025
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Cosplayers are a community unto themselves, and at NYCC, the likelihood of passing by a fully functioning DIY transformer costume is as great as passing someone on the street who had a bodega bacon, egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast.—
Nikki Birch,
NPR,
31 Oct. 2025
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Analysts expect the first have a higher likelihood of being upheld, while the reciprocal tariffs could be declared unconstitutional.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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This approach can reduce the overhead coordination of traditional innovation processes while maximizing the probability of generating top-tier ideas from the start.—
François Candelon,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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The 2032 pass of the hypothetical swarm will arrive from the nighttime side of the Earth, at which point Boslough said the probability of an impact or airburst might be higher than average.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Plausibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plausibility. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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