probable
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The WHO listed him as a "probable case" pending laboratory results.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Thomas Griffin, an attorney representing the employees, said in an immigration court filing that ICE acted with “neither a warrant nor probable cause,” violating the Constitution and its own laws and regulations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
From a strictly formal standpoint, it is more probable for the patterns that make up our memories and observations to arise from random entropy fluctuations than from a real sequence of past events.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
“There was not probable cause to search the virtual private papers of every single person within the geofence merely because of their proximity to the crime.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Szilard was convinced that a bomb was possible and, given Hitler’s goal of conquering the world, even probable.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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