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

Theories in Ghost Town Alive! need not be plausible.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2024

Halep's defence - including blood loss during surgery and spells when she was inactive - was found not to be plausible.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023

It sort of knows what things might be plausible.

From Scientific American • Oct. 31, 2022

He may take what is shadowy, if it be plausible, poetical, and coherent with his general plan.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George