likelihood
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Obesity also is a risk factor that increases the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, according to the National Institutes of Health.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
DWP engineers weigh those factors when prioritizing pipes for replacement, assigning a letter grade to each water main based on its likelihood of failure and the potential consequences of a break.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Cutler said this has a lower likelihood of being overridden by courts, noting Trump's top trade official Jamieson Greer had carefully navigated procedural requirements before imposing duties.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Genetic risk tests offer another way to estimate a person's likelihood of developing disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
The major business of the evening, in all likelihood, was an agreement to recalculate Virginia's debt and corresponding share of the enlarged federal debt.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Humanoids tasked with performing multiple jobs use artificial intelligence and are “probabilistic,” meaning they operate on statistical likelihoods, not certainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
The danger arises when people believe that the model is retrieving truth rather than generating likelihoods.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Defense departments around the world are preparing for higher likelihoods of conflict.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
Impact assessments for weather events such as heatwaves and storms range from "significant" to "moderate" with likelihoods of between 1% and 25%.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2023
I have made, in the Scotch Mackenzie circles, what inquiry was due; find no evidence, but various likelihoods, that this of the Barberina and him is fact, and a piece of his biography.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Carlyle, Thomas
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Statistics and Probability - Middle School
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