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plausible

[plaw-zuh-buhl] / ˈplɔ zə bəl /


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The report said that plans to build orbiting satellite data centers powered by the sun that would perform AI calculations were plausible but would require “uproven engineering to succeed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Although AuNPs are commonly regarded as artificial nanozymes today, the hypothesis suggests they were geologically plausible under a variety of natural Earth conditions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

A bedroom or a bunker is a plausible laboratory in a way it has never been for previous dual-use technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Paul Stevenson, a physics professor at the University of Surrey, said the tech giant's timeline sounded plausible - if its research lived up to its claims.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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