unlikeliness
Example Sentences
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When the sun dipped beneath the mountains and the glare subsided, the lake’s colors deepened and the unlikeliness of it all seemed to double.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023
One of the dolphins there was found dead and the other - a calf - was euthanised due to its unlikeliness to survive.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023
In an interview with a local television station, McGlothlin acknowledged the unlikeliness of the proposal, which he said was Stacy’s brainstorm.
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2022
As we sailed these waterways a century and a half later, our constant refrain was the sheer unlikeliness of the landscape.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2021
The unlikeliness of Harris’s bombshell—she was a grandmother, no less, without PhD or academic affiliation—prompted both wonder and chagrin.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
