likeliness

Example Sentences

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“If only one in 100 adult orangutans is removed from a population per year, this population has a high likeliness to go extinct.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2018

Running won’t turn you into a yoga guru, but improving your balance now will lower the likeliness of falling as you age, says Fieseler, also the president of the American Medical Athletic Association.

From US News • Sep. 30, 2016

This nonresponse is very loosely correlated with likeliness to vote but mainly reflects passing inclinations to participate in polling.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2016

But likeliness, like Elvis, has left the building.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2016

Our ignorance is so abysmal that our judgments of likeliness and unlikeliness of future events hardly count.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North