unlikely
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But Turkey's nuclear expansion, with two more plants in the pipeline, was unlikely to add enough baseload capacity to replace coal-fired electricity generation before around 2040, Danis said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
The move recalls an era when the company was an unlikely force in the music business, selling holiday albums and other CDs in displays at the register.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Hiring is unlikely to accelerate sharply in the short term.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Santa Cruz de Tenerife chief prosecutor Jose Luis Sanchez-Jauregui told Spanish news agency EFE that criminal proceedings were "very unlikely".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
While small doses of radiation may do some damage, they are unlikely to affect enough atoms to cause real trouble.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Then the next game turned out to be even unlikelier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
Soon, Gef appeared in an even unlikelier place: the British courts.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023
Some of the suggested new tributes reach into unlikelier cultural realms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2022
To imagine an even unlikelier hypothetical, let’s take Beijing at its word and imagine it would allow Facebook a fair playing field.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
If he's shamming—and unlikelier things have happened, now you mention it—the doctor finds him out.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He told voters: "You took a chance on the unlikeliest of candidates."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
El-Sayed thanked the crowd in the early hours of Wednesday morning for taking a chance on "the unlikeliest of candidates", saying his win was theirs.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Balancing sorrow with self-deprecation, Maron covers childhood abuse, his father’s dementia, evacuating his home with three cats during the L.A. fires and becoming the unlikeliest of Swifties.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
But after the A’s emerged as one of the unlikeliest success stories in the history of American sports, that’s exactly what happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
And that, the mate asserted, time after time, was the unlikeliest thing that could happen.
From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham
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