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plausible

[plaw-zuh-buhl] / ˈplɔ zə bəl /


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Yet Beijing chose to activate mechanisms that mobilize public opinion—indirectly shaping the behavior of businesses and consumers—and afford the government plausible deniability.

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The entire series, written by the clever Ben Elton, extrapolated what little is known about the Bard into an ingenious series of perfectly plausible comic dilemmas, and an occasional unexpected dramatic one.

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It wasn’t a vision in which easy resolutions seemed plausible, and there aren’t any in Capote’s Thanksgiving tale.

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The gifted and logorrheic podcaster has lately asserted an argument on “collective punishment” and “identity” that sounds, at first, vaguely plausible.

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His analysis of American imperatives in the Middle East was plausible—up to the moment when hijacked passenger jets hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

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