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

Yet what kinds of geoengineering projects would even be plausible?

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2021

Since one does not give bribes for nothing, Wyndham must hint that he had an object, and the hint must be plausible.

From Wyndham's Pal by Bindloss, Harold