likeliness

Example Sentences

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It may also minimize the likeliness that you’ll feel additional pressure in the future to go along with the general family excitement about a second child and give them what you think they want.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2021

“If only one in 100 adult orangutans is removed from a population per year, this population has a high likeliness to go extinct.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2018

A forensic psychologist for the defense said he recommended Griego receive five more years of treatment, despite the likeliness that Griego's treatment at Sequoyah Lodge would likely end in 2018.

From US News • Feb. 11, 2016

“For the first half of the 20th century, many female cartoonists wrote under ambiguous or masculine names, just to increase their likeliness for publication.”

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2016

Never showeth to my idea any likeliness of a woman.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)