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synonyms for probability

  • anticipation
  • chance
  • contingency
  • expectation
  • feasibility
  • odds
  • possibility
  • prospect
  • chances
  • conceivability
  • credibility
  • hazard
  • liability
  • likeliness
  • plausibility
  • practicability
  • prayer
  • presumption
  • promise
  • reasonableness
  • shot
  • toss-up
  • outside chance
  • snowball's chance
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antonyms for probability

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  • certainty
  • unlikelihood
  • reality
  • improbability
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How to use probability in a sentence

The probability an interval had zero signals was the probability that the first source didn’t emit a signal, 1−p, times the probability the second source didn’t emit a signal, 1−q.
CAN YOU COVER THE GLOBE?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSAUGUST 28, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
In fact, for cancer, historically, the probability of success is about 5 percent.
WILL A COVID-19 VACCINE CHANGE THE FUTURE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH? (EP. 430)STEPHEN J. DUBNERAUGUST 27, 2020FREAKONOMICS
Physicists have algorithms to compute the probabilities of no-loop and one-loop scenarios, but many two-loop collisions bring computers to their knees.
THE MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF PARTICLE COLLISIONS COMES INTO VIEWCHARLIE WOODAUGUST 20, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
Simply put, in-market audiences are potential leads that have a high probability of conversion.
HOW TO USE IN-MARKET AUDIENCES FOR BETTER SEARCH CAMPAIGNSHARIKRISHNA KUNDARIYAAUGUST 18, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCH
When you were told that your opponent would “play rock or paper with equal probability,” most solvers assumed that meant both probabilities were 50 percent, rather than being equal but less than 50 percent.
CAN YOU REACH THE BEACH?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSAUGUST 7, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
The Boston Red Sox, for all their problems, picked up 30 points of playoff probability under the new system.
THE WINNERS AND LOSERS IN MLB’S NEW PLAYOFF FORMATNEIL PAINE (NEIL.PAINE@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)JULY 24, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Alternatively, you could have added up the probabilities of getting between zero and 95 hits, and then subtracted this from 1.
ARE YOU A PINBALL WIZARD?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSJULY 24, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
What they found is that if the probability of extreme returns for a small number of strategies is high, there are statistical techniques that could help estimate the risk that the AI will choose an unethical one.
AI BEHAVING BADLY: NEW MODEL COULD HELP AI MAKE MORE ETHICAL CHOICESEDD GENTJULY 6, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 
For complex computations, a small probability for error can quickly generate a nonsense answer.
TO LIVE UP TO THE HYPE, QUANTUM COMPUTERS MUST REPAIR THEIR ERROR PROBLEMSEMILY CONOVERJUNE 22, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
The best you can do is sort of attach some probabilities for what might happen next.
THE PRIME MINISTER WHO CRIED BREXIT (EP. 392)STEPHEN J. DUBNEROCTOBER 10, 2019FREAKONOMICS
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