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probabilities

noun

plural of probability

as in odds

a measure of how often an event will occur instead of another the probability of flipping a coin and getting heads 50 times in a row is not good

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Recent Examples of probabilities When confronted with a terrible turn of events, most people tend to do some mental reckoning around probabilities. —

Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 22 May 2026 Other features like win-draw-loss probabilities, heat maps and expected goals data are displayed with very little context or analysis. —

Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 As opposed to a real person with a personal perspective who can genuinely respond to a live conversation, AI models use probabilities to match the patterns of how a person may commonly act or speak. —

Ankolika De, The Conversation, 19 May 2026 During summer 2024, the IRS also rejected 28,000 claims based on probabilities of fraud rather than actual examination, so many may have been improperly rejected, said Erin Collins, independent National Taxpayer Advocate, in a blog. —

Medora Lee, USA Today, 17 May 2026 Still, the odds of a Super El Niño between November and January have increased from a 1 in 4 chance last month to about a 1 in 3 chance in the latest strength probabilities from the CPC. —

Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 14 May 2026 All projections and probabilities are rounded to the nearest whole number. —

Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 8 May 2026 Both teams had playoff probabilities exceeding 85% just a few weeks ago. —

Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026 But while the civil court found the war crimes allegations were mostly proven on a balance of probabilities, the war crime murder charges would have to be proved in a criminal court to a higher standard of beyond reasonable doubt. —

ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026

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Palace were fortunate that Rayo failed to convert two good first-half chances.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 28 May 2026
However, markets peg the chances of a quarter-point rate increase by the end of the year at more than one in three, well above where odds of a rate hike stood prior to the war, the tool shows.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 28 May 2026