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as in likelihood
the quality or state of being likely to occur
the plot of the movie thriller was exciting and surprising but woefully lacking in probability
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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 probability
Below are the 14 plays since 2000 that swung a Super Bowl’s win probability by more than 20%.
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Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 9 Feb. 2025
That's because experts expected the impact probability of this asteroid, which sits at the top of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies Sentry asteroid risk list, to increase.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
These numbers are slightly higher than the probabilities published last month, when ESA estimated a 1.2 percent chance of an impact.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2025
No baseball player is going to avoid a ballpark because the probability of hitting a double is lower than the other 29 ballparks.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
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Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 9 Feb. 2025
That's because experts expected the impact probability of this asteroid, which sits at the top of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies Sentry asteroid risk list, to increase.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
These numbers are slightly higher than the probabilities published last month, when ESA estimated a 1.2 percent chance of an impact.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2025
No baseball player is going to avoid a ballpark because the probability of hitting a double is lower than the other 29 ballparks.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Probability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/probability. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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