unlikeliness


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Synonyms for unlikeliness

the improbability of a specified outcome

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If I had been able, when I was the age of most of you here today, to look into a magic mirror and see myself today, I would have laughed at the unlikeliness. But this is what I started asking for, praying for, dreaming of, when I was about thirteen.
Yet the sheer unlikeliness of Jelena Ostapenko and Sloane Stephens' grand slam victories in 2017 has given the whole women's draw at the Australian Open the feeling that maybe it could be them.
Despite the mesenchymal type often in the head and neck region, the rarity of the disease and unlikeliness to occur in the soft tissue resulted in its nonconsideration made for initial differential diagnosis.
Wilfred Sheed's chapter on the unlikeliness of Berlin's fame and his savvy business practices in The House That George Built (2007) is a useful read.
(27) Despite heavy fire in an austere environment and an unlikeliness of survival, these men performed their mission with much bravery.
They found that AS can be used in patients with abdominal pain reliably and a score of more than 7 indicates AA possibility at the rate of 93% and a negative test (i.e., AS of [less than or equal to]7) indicates unlikeliness of AA at the rate of 26%.
(119) Similarly, inferential statistics could have helped determine the unlikeliness of the timing of the impugned trades and emails in Colpitts, or if they were consistent with chance.
The unlikeliness of finding a plausible syntactic justification for these data has lead me to contemplate semantic criteria as possible alternative explanations.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the ballad was a genre made to bear the weight of national, ethnic, and cultural histories, yet by the beginning of the Victorian period, the unlikeliness of the ballad as historical document, the uncertainty of provenance even for ostensibly traditional ballads, also became part of the genre's meaning.
(45.) See Global Trade After the Failure of the Doha Round, supra note 1 (describing the failure of the Doha Round and the unlikeliness of a multilateral agreement in the near future).
It's a welcome acknowledgement of the unlikeliness of the casting, which turns out to be one of the film's chief strengths.
Just typing those words underlines their unlikeliness. Yes, Corbyn sees himself as part of a long line of anti-establishment radicals, but he is also first and foremost an internationalist, with cosmopolitan instincts.
However, even Supreme Court Justices noted its unlikeliness because Poe was abandoned by her parents.