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

For that to be plausible the entire process for stripping the carbon – would have to be powered by renewable energy.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

To serve that purpose, the conspiracy theory does not need to be plausible or believable.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 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

Blodgett fairly bristled in his indignation, and I said no more, although I knew well enough—or thought I did—that such a scheme was quite too wild to be plausible.

From The Mutineers by Hawes, Charles Boardman