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Synonyms for plausibly

easy to believe on the basis of available evidence

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He answered me very plausibly on some points, he obviously had collected some evidence and prepared himself cleverly.
A member of the tribe is guaranteed to make the final four of the Home Run Derby, and the winner of their matchup can plausibly claim to be the greatest Jewish slugger of all time.
The defendants move to dismiss the first three theories on the basis that the amended complaint does not plausibly state a claim for relief but concede that it does plausibly state a claim under the fourth theory.
The plaintiffs plausibly alleged the defendants' enterprise fell within the scope of the Fair Labor Standards Act and that each of the plaintiffs had an employer-employee relationship with defendants.
Further, patients on the drug still gained a "decent amount of weight, plausibly more than one might observe on other atypical antipsychotics outside of olanzapine," says Matteis.
Using lottery winnings as plausibly exogenous variations in the relative income of peers, we find that the dollar magnitude of a lottery win of one neighbor increases sub-sequent borrowing and bankruptcies among other neighbors.
We conclude that it was, because Plaintiffs have failed to state claims upon which relief can be granted: the first and second counts fail because the City Common Council's findings of blight and the JRB's "but for" assertions are legislative determinations that do not present justiciable issues of fact or law; the third count fails because it does not allege facts which plausibly establish that the City's cash grant for TID 10 was used to reimburse the developer's costs associated with demolishing historic buildings; and the fourth count fails because it does not allege facts which plausibly establish that cash grants are intended or used to pay owner-developers' property taxes.<br />Second, we consider whether certiorari review is appropriate.
However, the situation remained under control plausibly owing to administration's timely call to police.
This works most plausibly on a like-for-like basis; massive destruction for massive destruction.
On Sunday, though, an Israeli judge acquitted Gopstein of the charges because the two left-wing Israeli activists he assaulted could plausibly have been Palestinians .
He asks how particular conceptions of death influence and respond to corresponding conceptions of human virtue and perfection, and seeks his answer in the account of martyrdom given by Thomas Aquinas, In particular, he questions whether one can plausibly claim martyrdom to be an act of virtue in any recognizably Aristotelian sense.
Mr Benn was either ignorant of this or, more plausibly, editing history to suit his argument, as orators do.
The report describes, quite plausibly, the situation around the carmaker's scandal concerning the faked results of emissions tests; and it concludes that the market for which 500 Volkswagen Jettas were made does not want them due to this flaw, so the manufacturer decided that instead of dismantling and costly and elimination of them, that they would distribute them among people.
Our young hero, wonderfully played by Butterfield, is too aloof to be cute while his mother and teacher are so plausibly nervy, you're never sure if the attraction they feel for one another will ever blossom into romance.