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a measure of how often an event will occur instead of another the probability of flipping a coin and getting heads 50 times in a row is not good

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Recent Examples of probability Gavin Sheets’ line drive to right field in the fifth inning, with a 65% hit probability, was the only ball the Padres put in play in the first eighth innings that had better than a 35% chance of being a hit. Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025 The regime would also appear so weak that the probability of a domestic uprising would increase exponentially. Chuck Freilich, Twin Cities, 27 June 2025 The trade-off for higher yield is a higher probability that one caps the upside due to capital appreciation. Michael Khouw, CNBC, 26 June 2025 Patients begin to navigate risk as a terrain—scores, thresholds, probabilities—calibrating and recalibrating their place within it. Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for probability
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likelihood
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  • While the likelihood of seeing the northern lights will be low for most of the U.S. on Tuesday and Wednesday, Alaska and states near the Canadian border will have a higher chance of seeing the lights.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 25 June 2025
  • The concept of behavioral forecasting, as introduced to me by Dr. Corey Crossan through our work together, has its roots in disciplines like criminology, such as predicting the likelihood of a repeat offense, and in health, predicting the probability of illness based on behaviors.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025

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“Probability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/probability. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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