plausible
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Instead, she points out that other outcomes are also plausible, including a growing risk that inflation could remain sticky if energy costs do not come down quickly, causing businesses to raise prices.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
A lukewarm market reception for an early OpenAI listing, which seems plausible given the steady drumbeat of dysfunction at the Sam Altman-led company, could force Anthropic to delay or scale back.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
And given case law about CEQA, he said the union has “a very plausible argument.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
They say there are several biologically plausible explanations for the findings.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
This philosopher is certainly not Newcomen; but Desaguliers had, I think, correctly intuited the only plausible route to the invention of the Newcomen engine.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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