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Meanings of improbable in English
Having a probability too low to inspire belief.
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Examples for "unlikely"
Examples for "unlikely"
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As a result, anti-inversion legislation appears unlikely to become law this year.
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Mr Mitau said changes are unlikely to happen until early next year.
3
Despite those advantages, future nuclear development in South Africa is extremely unlikely.
4
Unlike in continental Europe, this is unlikely to come from the state.
5
The new sanctions are unlikely to trigger an immediate crisis in Russia.
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He said migrants were often more willing to work in remote areas.
2
It said local authorities were still assessing the situation in remote townships.
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However, timely information from these tests available via remote monitoring is underutilized.
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Customers should also allow six business days for delivery to remote areas.
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Telemedicine is a way to support health care delivery in remote areas.
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I have heard your reasons and regard them as unconvincing and inadequate.
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Celtic's unconvincing form in recent times is beginning to cause them damage.
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On the consumer side of the business, its record is also unconvincing.
4
The purported evidence has been subjected to exhaustive scrutiny; it is unconvincing.
5
This is a flat, unconvincing film with its tone far off base.
Usage of improbable in English
1
Indeed, our greatest trait is adapting to new circumstances, attaining improbable dreams.
2
He dismissed the idea as improbable; still the bare chance worried him.
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I know it's improbable, but it's the only way to explain everything.
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However improbable, this has turned out to be a good, thoughtful show.
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Commission member Somchai Srisutthiyakorn later told Reuters that date now looked improbable.
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It's improbable that the N. Vietnamese will quickly reduce their armed strength.
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A short engagement, followed by an equally short, if biologically improbable, pregnancy.
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And then the improbable happened: a goal, and for Ayew to boot.
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Relegation battles sometimes involve unlikely rescuers but rarely anyone quite this improbable.
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So many strange contingencies seem to me improbable in the highest degree.
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I daresay I would be believed; improbable that I had murdered him.
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That would have been too improbable and too much to hope for.
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I said nothing at this speculation that was, after all, not improbable.
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It is not improbable I shall join him in a few days.
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But the general shape of the clothed body was still strangely improbable.
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His extraordinary rendition ends with a traffic accident and an improbable escape.
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