unlikely
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For those players who decide they don't want to drop down the divisions, should it come to that, the process of leaving is unlikely to be straightforward.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Unfortunately, that group of countries is unlikely to include the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Fed-funds futures on Friday suggested an October hike looks unlikely.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The mixup is unlikely to make many headlines.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
Penelope knew the name was unlikely to stick in Lady Constance’s mind, but she was feeling so gloomy she simply could not stand it anymore.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Then the next game turned out to be even unlikelier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
Soon, Gef appeared in an even unlikelier place: the British courts.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023
Some of the suggested new tributes reach into unlikelier cultural realms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2022
To imagine an even unlikelier hypothetical, let’s take Beijing at its word and imagine it would allow Facebook a fair playing field.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
"Why, then, yer Reverence," replied Phaddhy, who was now a little softened, and forgot his enmity against Parrah More for the present, "unlikelier things might happen."
From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
He also discovers the unlikeliest of love stories, making the appealingly discursive, touchingly oddball “History” feel like a bent, colorful flower poking out of the pavement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Then foreigners tasted it, lost their minds and turned a condiment into the World Cup’s unlikeliest phenomenon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Balancing sorrow with self-deprecation, Maron covers childhood abuse, his father’s dementia, evacuating his home with three cats during the L.A. fires and becoming the unlikeliest of Swifties.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
The Estadio da Luz then erupted deep in injury time as Trubin turned the unlikeliest of heroes as he nodded in from a free-kick to send Benfica through.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
We learn our hardest lessons from unlikeliest masters.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
