probability
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There’s also an 83% chance that this El Niño will be the strongest on record, which goes back to 1950, up from a 75% probability forecast last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
“We believe a ‘someday’ Starlink Mobile network is not priced into telecom stocks, and that Thursday’s news increases the probability and potential speed of that scenario,” wrote Peter Supino of Wolfe Research.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
On Thursday, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center said the chance of a historic, record-breaking El Niño is now 83%, up from the probability of 75% issued last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Dame Siobhan, sitting with Lord Justice Colton, backed defence submissions that the wording used wrongly imposed a higher threshold for establishing probability.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hence, the complementary probability that at least one of these 253 people was bom on March 19 is also V2, or 50 percent.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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The two movements overlap heavily in membership and ideas, sharing an emphasis on reasoning through evidence and probabilities, and a conviction that preventing human extinction should be a top priority.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Softer inflation readings in June and July had eased pressure on the Fed to raise rates in September, with market-implied probabilities of a hike falling below 40% earlier this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Traders see an almost 70% chance of a Fed rate hike before the end of the year, according to the Atlanta Fed’s tracker of market probabilities.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
On the balance of probabilities, she ruled that Daniel had died of a choking incident caused by his undiagnosed oesophageal cancer.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“It is difficult to judge the probabilities of a child as young as that, but it seems to me not quite a normal baby...”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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