unlikely
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But a large-scale migration to China’s open-weight models, at least among large Western companies, seems unlikely even if they do remain cheaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
So, is this result a sign of things to come for both sides, or just a pre-season match that is unlikely to tell us much about the new campaign?
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
She and her mother are unlikely Silicon Valley adversaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Ballet flats are back in vogue, and that’s prompted some unlikely companies to hop on the bandwagon with their own riffs on the classic shoe silhouette.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Unfortunately, the zeros of black holes—singularities—look like unlikely candidates in the short term.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Pricier and bulkier than a Nike Fuelband or Fitbit and cluttered with more features, the Sport is unlikely to win over the quantified-exercise crowd, and the fancier models unlikelier still.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2015
"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
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
He’s also the unlikeliest curler at the Milan Cortina Games, where he could become the oldest American athlete in Winter Olympics history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
It is, according to bookmakers, the unlikeliest Super Bowl match-up of modern times.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 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
In the unlikeliest wilderness inspired youth is never without the mysteriously-brought food and the company of angels.
From The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] by Richard Le Gallienne
