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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
There are several scenarios with various degrees of plausibility.
—Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 9 July 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
There are several scenarios with various degrees of plausibility.
—Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 9 July 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
See All Example Sentences for plausibility
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plausibility
Noun
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The threat drew credibility from the recent strikes on Iran.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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Upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has plunged Kentucky's public health infrastructure into a state of confusion and uncertainty, officials said, and some local departments are beginning to question the credibility of the agency's guidance.—
Connor Giffin,
Louisville Courier Journal,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Tyrod Taylor could, in theory, raise the likelihood of winning another game somewhere along the way, but there is no upside.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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But an elevated inflation reading on Friday could give Fed officials pause, since a rate cut would increase the likelihood of a spike in demand that further drives up prices.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
24 Oct. 2025
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These experiments came after a deep-learning model sifted through possibilities to find high-probability candidates, a definitive transformation from brute-force searches typically favored in the past.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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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,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Plausibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plausibility. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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