unlikeliness
Example Sentences
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Its best feature is perhaps its unlikeliness: It has the oddness of a passion project, inexplicable in commercial terms — three-season deal notwithstanding — but something its makers just wanted to see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
One of the dolphins there was found dead and the other - a calf - was euthanised due to its unlikeliness to survive.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023
Such a price list is rare, with interest in protection on American debt usually low given the unlikeliness of default.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
Instead, Tom Stoppard remains alive to the unlikeliness of Tom Stoppard’s career from the very beginning, when little Tomáš Sträussler escapes Czechoslovakia just ahead of the Nazis and becomes a happy English schoolboy.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2021
The unlikeliness of Harris’s bombshell—she was a grandmother, no less, without PhD or academic affiliation—prompted both wonder and chagrin.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
