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Recent Examples of plausible Asset Manager VanEck’s projections of a million AI agents using crypto rails and blockchains by the end of 2025 seems plausible, there were 10,000 Web3 agents as of December 2024. Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Who lacks any observable notion of grand strategy — that is, of a plausible plan to Keep America Great and achieve peace through strength. Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025 Thus, IlluminatiPirate’s vision of a virtual wasteland created by and for bots is more plausible than ever. Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 10 Sep. 2025 The prospect of stagflation is increasingly plausible. Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for plausible
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Adjective
  • Yet the effect on credible persuasion of other Americans is statistically limited.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • During a federal hearing in New York, a witness told the judge more than four dozen women who prosecutors consider credible have come forward with allegations about the brothers.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Simmons is listed as probable on the Ole Miss injury report.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Worthy’s probable absence should stand to elevate the role of receiver Tyquan Thornton, who joined Kansas City’s practice squad in mid-November.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The shift has profound implications in House districts across the country, seeping into Democratic primaries as a possible liability for more centrist members.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • New downloads of Weather are no longer possible on Wear OS 6 devices from third-party manufacturers, such as Samsung, OnePlus and others.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has been active since 2010, compelling more than 8,000 facilities and suppliers in the United States to report their climate pollution every year, and uses the data to help shape rules to reduce the amount of pollution in the air.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For a daily driver, the third-generation Leaf is rather compelling, especially the S+, although the lack of heated front seats in that model might be too much of a deal-breaker, considering how important seat heaters are to EV efficiency in winter.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Plausible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plausible. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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