likelihood
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The results showed a significant relationship between meat-derived Neu5Gc consumption and the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Another prediction market, Polymarket, was giving the same likelihood.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Some of the dozen or so employees who left feared another one of New State’s four funds could be facing similar challenges, and questioned the firm’s likelihood of raising another new fund, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Beyond hurricanes, El Niño is already bringing higher sea levels, and it increases the likelihood California will see a particularly wet winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
But the more I tried to distract myself, the more I began to convince myself that Mr. Pirzada’s family was in all likelihood dead.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
We do not ascribe likelihoods to either scenario.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Humanoids tasked with performing multiple jobs use artificial intelligence and are “probabilistic,” meaning they operate on statistical likelihoods, not certainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
The danger arises when people believe that the model is retrieving truth rather than generating likelihoods.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Defense departments around the world are preparing for higher likelihoods of conflict.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
Great were his excuse even if he forced likelihoods, and suborned witnesses in the court of his own judgment.
From The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
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