likeliness

Example Sentences

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The Bloomberg piece focuses more on explaining the particulars of how it could be done than on fact-checking the likeliness that it will bury as much carbon as proposed.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2019

“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

But likeliness, like Elvis, has left the building.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 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