plausibility
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Newsnight has now been told that in 2019, the senior management team of Pizza Express looked into the plausibility of Mountbatten-Windsor's claim because they believed it was a matter of public interest.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
What inflicts the damage is not so much plausibility in the abstract as repetition inside intimacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Other experts have quibbled with certain details, questioning the plausibility of a “bolt from the blue” attack or noting that the U.S. would almost certainly launch many more interceptors.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
While that might comfort energy importers and economists concerned about inflation, Nasser’s response to an analyst’s question about the plausibility of U.S. proposals for its navy to escort shipping through the strait was less encouraging.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026
The new machine, like so many of Ernest’s ideas before it, was perched on the edge of technical plausibility, offering the prospect of limitless triumph or abject failure.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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