Thesaurus / implausible
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Even professionals often struggle to avoid implausible accounts of the origins and meanings of dreams.
IN OUR DREAMS, A THEATER OF THE UNCONSCIOUSNICK ROMEOJANUARY 22, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAs the Research Affiliates authors put it, “The first part of our definition to confirm a bubble is that using a discounted cash-flow or other valuation model, we would need implausible assumptions to justify the market’s or asset’s current price.”
TESLA IS THE PROXY FOR A STOCK MARKET GONE MADSHAWN TULLYJANUARY 21, 2021FORTUNEThese are the types of lies or false truths that seem so obviously implausible that they don’t seem designed to deceive, but rather, to signal something else.
‘I WON THE ELECTION’ – HOW POWERFUL PEOPLE USE LOUSY LIES TO TWIST REALITYLGBTQ-EDITORNOVEMBER 25, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSThe goal of our forecast is to figure out which scenarios are most plausible in the real world, and if you deliberately choose some implausible ones, it may be hard to know what to make of the output.
WE’RE LETTING YOU MESS WITH OUR PRESIDENTIAL FORECAST, BUT TRY NOT TO MAKE THE MAP TOO WEIRDNATE SILVER (NRSILVER@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)OCTOBER 21, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThis situation makes rather implausible or unrealistic some of the proposed schemes.
NEW CLUES TO CHEMICAL ORIGINS OF METABOLISM AT DAWN OF LIFEJOHN RENNIEOCTOBER 12, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEThis was no implausible ground for imagining that his death had some other cause than the yellow fever.
ORMOND, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWNOpportunism has been characterized by the avid acceptance of wholly implausible doctrines, or by a disingenuous "realism."
GOVERNMENT IN REPUBLICAN CHINAPAUL MYRON ANTHONY LINEBARGERThird, you print stories that give a weak and implausible scientific basis.
ASTOUNDING STORIES, FEBRUARY, 1931VARIOUSLarry recognized that his statement had sounded most implausible.
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