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

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

I've never found the idea that Abe jumped because of what others were doing to him to be plausible.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023

It is easy in such advocacy to be plausible, forcible, affluent in words and apparent reasons; also to be bold, striking, astonishing.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various