as in improbability
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Listen to this article Devant J. Joiner has withdrawn as one of Gov. Ned Lamont’s nominees as a judge of the Superior Court, acknowledging the unlikelihood of overcoming an unfavorable report by the legislature’s Judiciary Committee.
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Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2024
The top of the stretch became a seven-wide guessing game, keeping outcomes of all sizes, stripes and degrees of unlikelihood alive exhiliratingly late in a race that sits on mothballs for 364 days.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
The story of my breast cancer diagnosis is full of unlikelihoods.
—Lauren Gray, SELF, 1 Apr. 2024
Powell on Sunday doubled down on the unlikelihood of a cut next month.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
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Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2024
The top of the stretch became a seven-wide guessing game, keeping outcomes of all sizes, stripes and degrees of unlikelihood alive exhiliratingly late in a race that sits on mothballs for 364 days.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
The story of my breast cancer diagnosis is full of unlikelihoods.
—Lauren Gray, SELF, 1 Apr. 2024
Powell on Sunday doubled down on the unlikelihood of a cut next month.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
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“Unlikelihood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlikelihood. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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