unlikeliness

Example Sentences

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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

“She represented all of us,” Al-Mufty said, acknowledging the unlikeliness that a teenage student and a sovereign could relate to one another.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 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