How to Use plausibility in a Sentence

plausibility

noun
  • Stay up to date on the best things to do, see and eat in L.A. The allure is in the unsettling plausibility of it all.
    Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • Logic and plausibility are held in abeyance to pave the way for the next juicy pop number.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • But the idea that Sean Spicer has been body-shamed out of the spotlight still holds a patina of plausibility.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 20 June 2017
  • The best stories here are the ones that fall on or near the line of plausibility, exposing the fault lines in our current mode.
    Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • The one thing this dud of a bombshell has going for it is plausibility.
    Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Too many times when the Hall of Fame trainer has stretched the envelope of plausibility the way a sumo does spandex.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2021
  • The movie has every right to be fiction, but the heart of its drama lies in its patina of plausibility.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
  • But the jury could not see past the question of plausibility.
    New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
  • And selling judges on the plausibility of a future that never occurred is the hard part.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Searching for the source of life on Earth, Miller and Urey discovered the plausibility of life throughout the cosmos.
    Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2016
  • Any air of plausibility soon leaks out of the plot, and the whole thing drifts into silliness, tricked out with familiar tropes.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Tracy and Gordo are on the far end of the plausibility spectrum.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
  • That group is called Crossroads—a name with just the right degree of clever-hokey Christian plausibility.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Paragon missed even that window of plausibility by at least two years.
    Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
  • Best not to think too long or hard about the dumb plot, the threadbare romance, the fetishization of U.S. military might or the de rigueur plausibility issues.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The play’s scrupulous plausibility slips a notch in the ratcheting up of this conflict.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But the power of the Museum of Banned Objects is in its plausibility.
    Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2018
  • But what does physics say about the plausibility of flying reindeer?
    Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • For him truth means plausibility, and by that measure the story of Adam and Eve is no more than a miracle of storytelling.
    Marilynne Robinson, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The Birds, Vertigo, and Psycho, Hitchcock drove off the plausibility road with four-wheel drive.
    Matt Patches, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2015
  • In that way, the Globes are a kind of Overton window for films and performances, pushing their winners into the realm of plausibility.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Overall, the results could have potential plausibility, but age does seem to take a grand toll.
    Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 11 July 2017
  • But perhaps no one’s outfits stretch the limits of plausibility more than Lazkani’s.
    Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
  • Peary, for all his flaws, required a basic respect for plausibility and fact.
    Time, 15 July 2023
  • But an unlikely culprit has cast doubt on the plausibility of this scenario: cruise ships, at least four of which have been impacted by the outbreak.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2020
  • This one doesn't even reach any level of plausibility for a federal judge.
    Fox News, 26 Sep. 2018
  • And, as ever, the franchise is making good on her plausibility.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2021
  • The plausibility of the basic-income idea is still a matter of some pretty basic debate.
    CBS News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Without having to make a case for the plausibility of the trio, the emotional detachment that Zaillian brings to the show finds a much more satisfying rhythm.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Personally, this plausibility problem undermined my engagement with the film throughout, the mental equivalent of chipping a tooth on the first course of a meal.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024

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