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Improbabilities abound in Miracle at Augusta, which culminates with a John Daly-at-the-1991-PGA-Championship-like finish.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

Improbabilities are losing their news value in Kansas City, where the baseball team so well-to-do for a decade, and so depressed last season, was advertised to be "in transition," and emphatically is.

From Time Magazine Archive

Afterwards, as I return'd to Paris, I ruminated upon this Subject, and I saw a thousand Contradictions and Improbabilities in the pretended Descent.

From Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) by Defoe, Daniel

Improbabilities are admissible in light comedy, and still more in farce, which would wreck the fortunes of a drama purporting to present a sober and faithful picture of real life.

From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by Archer, William

Improbabilities, misnamed "Imaginative Writing" Amateurs often lean towards the improbable—calling it imaginative work—partly because they fancy they are less hampered by rules and restrictions than if they take everyday, mundane subjects.

From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora