improbability
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One posits the existence of billions of universes, arguing that happenstance alone accounts for the improbability of our inhabiting this one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
"The inherent improbability that such a large number of journalists would do that should be borne in mind," White argued.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
I wish I could tell you I respected the improbability of the windfall by immediately retreating to my suite.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
Such improbability is what propelled the Club 27 myth to prominence, and subsequent deaths — especially Kurt Cobain’s passing — continue to fuel its mystique, Dunivin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
Gamblers would see that it had come up black the past eight spins, marvel at the improbability, and feel in their bones that the tiny silver ball was now more likely to land on red.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
One of the strategies adopted by Mr. Coben and company is to keep the improbabilities coming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
For the armchair judge, it is not so much a matter of who you believe — there being improbabilities and weirdnesses in both the prosecution and defense — as who you don’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2022
I will not attempt to prosecute a play deliberately written as a fantasia for its factual improbabilities.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
The agency’s own scientific advisory panel warned that the math underlying the new rule was riddled with weaknesses and improbabilities.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2020
In some contexts, improbabilities are to be expected.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
