probable
Example Sentences
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Mr. Yeaw, an assistant secretary at State, added details: “The probable explosion occurred right near the Lop Nur nuclear test site” in China.
“But Poe has not cheated; his explanation, if not probable, is possible. The game has been played fairly.”
“I don’t think that’s enough for probable cause for a homicide,” she said in asking Robert J. Totten, the Juvenile Court commissioner, to dismiss the case.
From Los Angeles Times
He said the probable explosion occurred near Lop Nor in northwest China, which has long served as China’s main nuclear test site.
Its active ingredient is glyphosate, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a unit of the World Health Organization, identified in 2015 as a probable human carcinogen.
From BBC
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