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
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
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
I've never found the idea that Abe jumped because of what others were doing to him to be plausible.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023
If there were but one railroad entering a great city, and no other mode of reaching it, this objection would be plausible, but not in the actual case.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace
