bare possibility
Example Sentences
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Though her party is "very loosely organized" and has only "a bare possibility" of getting on the ballot in Texas and Washington, Mrs. Jensen believes she is a shoo-in, since her horoscope is favorable.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was even a bare possibility that the word Nacista was derived from the party's original full name, Movimiento Nacional Socialista.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says he: "1960 will be one of the industry's best production years, with a bare possibility of topping the 1955 record ingot output of 117 million tons."
From Time Magazine Archive
But the bare possibility can turn the most level-headed curator into a creature half Hawkshaw, half Walter Mitty.
From Time Magazine Archive
You must plan experiments on the basis of probability, even bare possibility, rather than certainty.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
