plausible
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The cheating scheme itself may well have been apocryphal, but it felt tantalizingly plausible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
"What we found is a plausible mechanism by which hyperglycemia directly contributes to immune evasion," said Tharp.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
How far it can rise is the big question, but the technical charts suggest a move back to 5% is plausible in the short term.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
"The harmful algal blooma is a leading plausible explanation and appears likely to have contributed, but the vailable evidence does not yet allow us to say definitively that it caused the entire decline," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The land was useless for agriculture but had four plausible seaports and huge underground deposits of prehistoric guano, which Chilean companies mined and shipped to Europe for fertilizer.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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