likeliness

Example Sentences

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“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

This nonresponse is very loosely correlated with likeliness to vote but mainly reflects passing inclinations to participate in polling.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2016

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

Our ignorance is so abysmal that our judgments of likeliness and unlikeliness of future events hardly count.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North