be plausible
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Ask it sensitive questions and you’ll get carefully filtered answers with just enough truth to be plausible but still misleading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Halep's defence - including blood loss during surgery and spells when she was inactive - was found not to be plausible.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023
Overseas, I was always scared about what could be plausible, even if I didn’t know what was plausible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
It sort of knows what things might be plausible.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 31, 2022
St. Genis, determined not to tell the truth, found it a difficult task to concoct a story that would be plausible and at the same time redound to his credit.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
