be plausible
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Ask it sensitive questions and you’ll get carefully filtered answers with just enough truth to be plausible but still misleading.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
For that to be plausible the entire process for stripping the carbon – would have to be powered by renewable energy.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
Theories in Ghost Town Alive! need not be plausible.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2024
If we didn't intimately know Gus Fring, his preparedness for Lalo might have come off as a bit too elegant and convenient to be plausible.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2022
Whereupon, seeking to be plausible, he coughed again, and instantly hated himself: the sound he made was an atrocity.
From The Magnificent Ambersons by Tarkington, Booth