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Meanings of unlikelihood in English

Portuguese
improbabilidade
Catalan
inversemblança

The improbability of a specified outcome.

improbabilidade
Usage of unlikelihood in English
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A poem about the Hacker Crackdown and the sheer unlikelihood of CFP.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
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It seemed a wild unlikelihood, but he durst not give up hope.
Denzil Quarrier
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PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood.
The Devil's Dictionary
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An actuary considers the statistical unlikelihood of her birth and promptly dies.
The Irish Times
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Maybe this was Doul, playing possibilities, making a concerto of likelihood and unlikelihood.
The Scar
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Even Ned recognized the vague unlikelihood of such a metamorphosis.
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories
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What he overlooks is the unlikelihood of them getting a result in the first place.
The Irish Times
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This was mitigated to three months given his retirement and the unlikelihood of him reoffending.
Reuters
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UPDATE: Several commenters have pointed out the unlikelihood of Nikon sneaking new sensors into existing cameras.
Wired
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An examination of the circumstances necessary to bring about such an eventuality reveals the extreme unlikelihood.
The Irish Times
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Against it was its utter unlikelihood; it resembled nothing but the nightmare of a diseased imagination.
The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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I might have reasoned, if I looked at home, upon the unlikelihood of any such thing.
Daisy in the Field
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We find Scalper in a state of inspiration; waxing on unity and the magnificent unlikelihood of existence.
Radio NZ
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And, besides the utter unlikelihood of the thought, it is entirely destitute of support in the premises.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
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The impossibilities of place, the unlikelihood of circumstances, the most incredible disguises will not lead him astray.
The Lerouge Case
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Or look up the ISP's Web site in the unlikelihood that it includes a directory of users.
The Irish Times
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Portuguese
improbabilidade
Unlikelihood through the time