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How to use the word plausibility in a Sentence?

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Given the temporal association and biological plausibility, FDA agrees with the assessments of the investigators that these events were possibly related to study vaccine. … Therefore, [Guillain-Barre] is being considered an important potential risk.

The FDA

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If a theory and its proponents stubbornly refuse falsification by an ever increasing body of substantial conflicting evidence, the theory degenerates into a textbook example of dogmatic pseudo-science. The neo-Darwinian theory of macroevolution has failed on all fronts, from mathematical feasibility, to theoretical plausibility and explanatory power, to empirical support.

Günter Bechly

added by Normando
2 years ago

At the State Department in the last months of the last administration we did n’t draw or assert any conclusions, but we worked successfully to reveal certain facts and raise significant questions about the clear plausibility of a lab leak origin, this was a global public service, and it is good that experts and journalists are increasingly turning their own attention to the issue, albeit belatedly.

David Asher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the State Department in the last months of the last administration we didn’t draw or assert any conclusions, but we worked successfully to reveal certain facts and raise significant questions about the clear plausibility of a lab leak origin, this was a global public service, and it is good that experts and journalists are increasingly turning their own attention to the issue, albeit belatedly.

David Asher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Its within the realms of plausibility that Enceladus might actually be wet and soggy all the way through.

Paul Byrne

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If you beef up security for oil and gas assets, you are protecting yourself from non-state and state actors so there is some plausibility to what he's saying, but is it really being driven by Daesh? I don't think so.

Ian Storey

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

Hazlitt

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, February 25, 2000

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

Barbara Mikkelson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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