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

“For the first half of the 20th century, many female cartoonists wrote under ambiguous or masculine names, just to increase their likeliness for publication.”

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2016

Scarce that leaf, Fluttering so dry and withered to his feet From off the sal-branch, bore less likeliness Of spring's soft greenery than he of him Who was the princely flower of all his land.

From The Light of Asia by Arnold, Edwin, Sir