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the quality or state of being likely to occur
- the plot of the movie thriller was exciting and surprising but woefully lacking in probability
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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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“Probability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/probability. Accessed 18 Sep. 2021.
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