make plausible

Example Sentences

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Donato wrote that the lawsuit had failed to make plausible legal claims.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2022

Mr Bergman said researchers did not know who was responsible, but that whoever did it went to "some trouble to try and make plausible false tracks".

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2021

There are several ways to make plausible comparisons.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2019

They make plausible arguments: farmers have higher living costs; the cost of things the farmer buys rise faster than the price of things he sells.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even that doesn't seem to make plausible a positive assertion that 'women did this.'

From In the Onyx Lobby by Wells, Carolyn