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make plausible

VERB

clear up

Synonyms

STRONGEST

clarify illustrate resolve solve straighten out unravel

WEAK

answer cipher decipher dissolve elucidate figure out illuminate make reasonable puzzle out tidy unfold

Antonyms

STRONGEST

question wonder

WEAK

complicate worsen

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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

Molotov tried to make plausible the continued presence of Soviet troops.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now I have not myself the least objection to idealism,—an hypothesis which voluminous considerations make plausible, and whose difficulties may be cleared away any day by new discriminations or discoveries.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

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