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

Overseas, I was always scared about what could be plausible, even if I didn’t know what was plausible.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023

It sort of knows what things might be plausible.

From Scientific American • Oct. 31, 2022

Language, for instance—one of two thousand or so Earth tongues that went out of use late enough to be plausible as the main language of a colonized planet.

From The Lost Kafoozalum by Ashwell, Pauline