as in improbability
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Recent Examples of unlikelihood
Keeping with statements from other policymakers, Waller’s sentiments point to an unlikelihood of a rate cut when the Federal Open Market Committee meets later this month, but a stronger likelihood of a move in September.
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 17 July 2024
Listen to this article Devant J. Joiner has withdrawn as one of Gov.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.
—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
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 17 July 2024
Listen to this article Devant J. Joiner has withdrawn as one of Gov.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.
—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
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“Unlikelihood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlikelihood. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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