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Main Entry:
like·ly
[
lahyk
-lee
]
/
ˈlaɪk
li
/
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Part of Speech:
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Example Sentences
If newspapers and magazines begin charging people to read their output, the pirates are
likely
to turn up, and quickly.
In addition, plants and the animals that depend on them will
likely
migrate to higher elevations.
Try drawing your hand when you can't see it--your picture is
likely
distorted.
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If newspapers and magazines begin charging people to read their output, the pirates are
likely
to turn up, and quickly.
In addition, plants and the animals that depend on them will
likely
migrate to higher elevations.
Try drawing your hand when you can't see it--your picture is
likely
distorted.
They also queried the students about whether they were
likely
to make exercise a routine part of their day.
Such an eruption would
likely
send hot ash and gas flying down the northwestern flanks of the mountain.
Children can walk--or more
likely
run--the maze created by the clipped boxwood hedges.
Even the simplest open fire is
likely
to draw people outdoors.
Time travel would
likely
be a fairly traumatic experience, leaving you groggy, maybe with some short-term memory loss.
Perpetually plugged-in youngsters are more
likely
to suffer poor psychological health.
The newcomers are
likely
to be serious financial firms, some of them foreign.
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