How To Use Implausible In A Sentence
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What do you mean, it all sounds utterly implausible?
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Many modern philosophers consider that claims to knowledge of an unembodied consciousness (a God) are too dubious and implausible to be worth considering.
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Bayesian 'suggested the implausible image of a process that gets the correct answer, then adulterates it with a bias.
Daniel Kahneman - Autobiography
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After the pair enjoyed an implausible pop stardom together, Flynn baled out and found peace with his inner self.
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Now, the perpetrator governments have agreed to this legal conclusion, although they maintain the implausible assertion that gun confiscations were not the result of official policy.
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gave the teacher an implausible excuse
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This idea is totally implausible.
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Of all the impossible occurrences in Fantastic Four, none seems as implausible as scientist Reed Richards's scheme to make billions of dollars by studying the human genome through the exposure of plants - yes, plants - to cosmic rays.
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From describing the Iraqi insurgency as being in its "last throes" (when it was patently just getting revved up for its second throes) to calling the acceptability of waterboarding a "no-brainer" (when even the people who conduct it say that the information it yields cannot be relied upon), he continues to defend the indefensible with the implausible and the discredited.
Ellis Weiner: International Man of Mystery
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He largely refused to offer explanations or interpretations of his films: when he did so, they were implausible.
The Times Literary Supplement
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No argument but if the nature of building block biochemicals and natural laws indicate that a process culminating in a cell is implausible - what then?
Berlinski stirring the pot
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This unsourced accusation, which probably originates in the expatriate Iranian community, strikes me as completely implausible.
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Unfortunately, in this reviewer's estimation, it is a flawed one: an attempted blend of evolutionary theory as the basis for psychology and implausible Freudian psychobabble.
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The whole plot of the film is ridiculously implausible.
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For Amelia Heaton-Renshaw, that implausible yarn is the true story of her two-year-old Shanghai business, Amelia's Marketplace, which bills itself as the city's 'jam and chutney hotline.'
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As I've explained, the Administration bill would purport to "construe" Common Article 3 of Geneva to prohibit only what the McCain Amendment prohibits (and to cut off any judicial review that might overturn that implausible interpretation of Common Article 3).
Balkinization
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In reality, the prospect is implausible: reduce a man's propensity to lust and he will compensate with an increased aggression or cupidity.
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Critics say the film is dated, "stagey," and implausible.
Tom Gregory: California Kicks Right-Wing Butt
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U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee threw out the banks as defendants last year, saying that allegations "that the banks and [R.A. North] were in cahoots with TRM" were "simply implausible.
Lure of quick profits snared investors in Carolina land deals
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Nothing of the implausible metaphysics of this poem, let alone its specific Neoplatonic decor, need obscure what comes to light, and to ear, by such associations about a continuous human potentiality modeled in verse itself.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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Though we should remain sceptical about these accounts – as Domning noted – it is not implausible that they were genuine, and Domning cites a radio-tracked Florida manatee that, in 1995, got as far as Rhode Island.
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Not knowing her at all is becoming an increasingly implausible option.
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The company has been seen as a takeover target, but that looks implausible.
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It's wildly implausible, it's a cheap and uninvolving way to tell a story, and it shows the film's willingness to betray its characters for the sake of a laugh.
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The shifty look, the evasive stare, the implausible excuse.
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It's not entirely implausible that a galaxy could be identical to our own.
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Each Loser is introduced with a comic rendering of their likeness, a handful of mildly implausible stunts keep things visually interesting, and then there's the egg-shaped superbomb that Max refers to as "The Snuke".
Something Awful
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Margaret found his excuse somewhat implausible.
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It now sounds highly implausible.
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Some philosophers will find implausible the claim that contextualism is the cure for relativism.
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However, the expense of mounting such a complex expedition, and the extremely poor odds in favor of survival, made material profit implausible as a motive for going to war.
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E-mail addresses were exchanged together with his rather implausible excuse of why we might not see each other for some time.
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The parade of cardboard characters with implausible motives makes for a less than satisfying read.
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Drawing on exit polls, he infers that this subgroup is likely two-thirds Latino and concludes that, as such, the apparent shift to Republicans is the "most implausible result" in the Gallup Poll.
Gallup's Frank Newport Responds To Criticism
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The berries of callicarpa, or beautyberry, are an amazing, luminous, implausible shade of purple.
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Aggreko looks increasingly like some sort of implausible perpetual motion machine.
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Yet for all its appeal, the notion of solving our social problems with a body of knowledge derived from the artist and artisan is vastly implausible.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But the most powerful lure may be an implausible museum outside of Belo Horizonte known as Inhotim.
Have It Your Way
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Whereas the correspondences between the drawing and the reflected face are not as conclusive, they are not altogether implausible.
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The plot, veering between slavish adherence and badly conceived alterations, has become incomprehensible, driven by coincidence of the implausible rather than that of the existential variety.
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Too many characters and situations are implausible - you surely wouldn't find such a tame, gentle set of cons in any prison.
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Story then becomes revised into recitation or into a deliberately implausible sequence against which the narrative voice can play.
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That denial now looks implausible at best.
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The plot has some highly implausible twists, too.
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The shifty look, the evasive stare, the implausible excuse.
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TL;DR: Plenty of things can depressurize an aircraft, and hitting an aircraft in flight is extraordinarily implausible.
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That sounds implausible to me.
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We are, in part, natural beings, but we alone among the animals are in some ways alienated from the natural world in which we live. Fundamentalist creationism and rigidly atheistic evolutionism are both pretty implausible.
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Along with those possibilities, I would allow “brain abscess” as not implausible.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Con Law Exam Kills Law Student
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It's not entirely implausible that a galaxy could be identical to our own.
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It features an ambitious politician and her neglected son, and it achieves levels of cynicism I would have found implausible had I not witnessed the ascendance of Sarah Palin.
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He gave a series of increasingly implausible excuses.
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Well, I've been noticing game characters 'implausible clothes for ages -- none of the FFVII crew bundled up at the Icicle Inn, Solid Snake didn't mind lying belly-down in the snow at Shadow Moses and I've watched shirtless musclemen brave the elements for over a decade with nothing more than a chuckle and "that's video games for you.
Exposing Lara's... Equanimity?
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Instead, it depicts a creature far more readily found in the collective imagination of the male contingent of its adolescent target audience, and tells a story almost as implausible as any sword and sorcery epic.
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Story then becomes revised into recitation or into a deliberately implausible sequence against which the narrative voice can play.
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But a time when college administrations have embraced Twitter as a strategic tool, it no longer seems implausible that a university president would also diarize in 140-character bursts on the public Web.
College presidents around USA impersonated on Twitter
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He campaigned energetically and acted more like an opposition leader than a president, making implausible promises about tax cuts.
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His basic ignorance about the way people behave is astonishing – talking in utterly implausible ways to one another.
Humor
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Scalia's interpretation is implausible and would effectively emasculate the Amendment.
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Biologists say implausible that onions could attract flu virus as a bug zapper traps flies.
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Because of prevailing winds and the relative position and sizes of the different islands, it is implausible that the teals colonized mainland New Zealand from Australia via the subantarctic islands.
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It's not entirely implausible that a galaxy could be identical to our own.
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And it would be implausible to suppose that such beliefs are even very often among his occurrent beliefs.
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The questions raised by the uncountably infinite number of both unrealistic and implausible alternate viewpoints of diversity demand answers.
Archive 2007-06-01
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Aside from the fact that it involves mnemic causation (direct and deterministic influence by past events) and a similar influence by the utility function (which really pertains to the future) - it is highly implausible.
Capitalistic Musings
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Despite a few wildly implausible plot twists, this is an engagingly human thriller.
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Eternalism too, prima facie, would seem to have trouble accounting for the asymmetries built into possibilism, in addition to its implausible denial of passage.
Being and Becoming in Modern Physics
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He is a self-taught musician, which makes his life path and progressions that much more implausible.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left no matter how implausible, must be true.
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One reviewer finds Perkins' story implausible and unconvincing, except perhaps to conspiracy buffs.
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Maybe our prisons are filled with implausible, stereotypical numpties who've watched GoodFellas too many times and want to be criminals more than they actually want to commit crime.
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At the same moment, his mouth, full of an implausible number of filthy, unbrushed teeth, was jammed next to my right ear-hole.
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Bradford: if the nature of building block biochemicals and natural laws indicate that a process culminating in a cell is implausible - what then?
Berlinski stirring the pot
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All three of Kane's categories suffer from implausible assumptions which belong in the realms of racist folklore rather than scientific inquiry.
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It is not implausible that such techniques may have yielded useful leads in the years before that.
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He is always calling in sick with medically astounding symptoms, or making up increasingly implausible excuses not to come in.
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The shifty look, the evasive stare, the implausible excuse.
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If it seems implausible to some, no matter: implausibility can never be accepted as a bar to evangelism even if it constitutes a barrier to faith.
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Men with implausible whiskers and killer breath traded ribaldry and cursed the niggardliness of non-buyers, while women doled out penny dainties to raggedy kids and cackled about their menfolk's amorous shortcomings.
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I had to admit it sounded like an implausible excuse.
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Their excuse, said Mr Evans, was that they were visiting Cumbria for rabbiting and ferreting - an implausible explanation at a time when people were not allowed on to farmland because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
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I would have found the very idea of such a scene and such a sound implausible before my arrival in Cairo.
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A typical set sees him trotting about like a genteel and very gay faun, throwing out absurdist rants, implausible anecdotes and ludicrous theories.
This week's new comedy
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The parade of cardboard characters with implausible motives makes for a less than satisfying read.
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Science fiction cinema is no stranger to implausible robots, running the full gamut from implausibly cool to implausibly terrible.
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My latest Guardian column looks at Peter Mandelson's new "Digital Economy Bill," a sweeping piece of proposed British legislation that would give Mandelson broad powers to act as the Pirate-Finder General, with the implausible aim of reducing UK file-sharing by 70 percent in one year.
Boing Boing
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I find this view of language highly implausible.
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But a pretty implausible plot twist results in a conflict of interest.
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I meant intubated as in the medical term for to tracheal intubation or having a wacky tube shoved down your throat to help you breathe, it was an earlier part of the character concept that I got rid of after it occurred to me how implausible it would be for someone in that condition to be taking blows and moving around that much without simply destroying his throat and dying.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to Design Outstanding Superhero Costumes
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A huge and implausible fiction - yes, but I dipped in for cursory inspection.
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I had to admit it sounded like an implausible excuse.
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So I certainly can't call the AH -- namely, the slow "Finlandization" of Britain after a Nazi victory on the Continent -- implausible on that level.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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When she visited a psychic for research purposes she found it highly implausible.
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At first this sounds rather implausible.
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And waving such a magic wand is no longer completely implausible.
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There are lies, lies and implausible lies," to quote Meles Zenawi, the dictator-cum-economic spinmeister of Ethiopia.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: The Voodoo Economics of Meles Zenawi
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Equally implausible is the oft-repeated assertion that Sen Obama is "unvetted" or a "roll of the dice.
Poll: Obama More Electable Than Hillary AND Edwards
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Marshal Teddy Daniels (three-time Academy Award® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are summoned to Shutter Island to investigate the implausible disappearance of a brilliant multiple murderess from a locked room within the impenetrable Ashecliffe Hospital.
Over 20 High Resolution Images from Martin Scorsese’s SHUTTER ISLAND Starring Leonardo DiCaprio – Collider.com
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Many of the events that take place seem implausible, even at times incredible.
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If the committee's work is anything to go by, his promise sounds implausible.
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This all sounds most implausible.
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This version of consequentialism has an incredibly implausible axiology.
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Her explanation is not implausible.
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Too many characters and situations are implausible - you surely wouldn't find such a tame, gentle set of cons in any prison.
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It sounds implausible that a piece of writing can actually be enhanced by technically imperfect diction.
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For others, the distance of three years makes what happened feel both implausible and unforgivable.
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Above it all floated a huge sparkling mirror ball, glistening as it rotated in the sun, spewing rainbow streaks across the implausible scene.
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It is not implausible that such techniques may have yielded useful leads in the years before that.
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The idea that a virus could wipe out an entire city so quickly seems a little implausible.
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To say that the "twist" in the plot is implausible certainly downplays the sheer inanity of it.
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The inflation numbers cited imply a completely implausible estimate of the slope of the SRAS.
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Red Rock West is a slow-burn thriller, wry and dry, implausible and quietly confident about itself.
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As a result, there were changes in the number of visits for some conditions that were so abrupt that it seems implausible that an environmental toxicant could be the cause.
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They are based on an array of budget devices and implausible assumptions that mask hundreds of billions of dollars of tax reductions and government expenditures that are virtually certain to occur but are omitted from the budget.
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In their appeal to holism, practitioners claim to be able to work with an implausible number of unique configurations of information.
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• An end to the genophobia of many academics and pundits, whose blank-slate doctrines will look increasingly implausible as people learn their about genes that affect their temperament and cognition.
Integral Options Cafe
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It no longer sounds implausible when ancient Greeks write about the intricate textiles made by legendary weavers like Penelope and Arachne, or about historical weavers, like the women of Athens who created a new dress, or peplos, for the statue of Athena Polias on the Acropolis.
Women Artists Win!
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Their excuse, said Mr Evans, was that they were visiting Cumbria for rabbiting and ferreting - an implausible explanation at a time when people were not allowed on to farmland because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
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It is not implausible that such techniques may have yielded useful leads in the years before that.
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Meyssan is out pimping the implausible idea that Democratic Party muckymuck Rahm Emmanuel is a Mossad agent.
¡No Pasarán!
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One of his friends is quoted in the book recalling a night when Wood seems to have confessed to being chastely asexual, which is not implausible.
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The show was very Cirque Du Soleil including acrobats flying around on bits of string and doing implausible things while balanced on tiny bits of wood.
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The poem is a whimsical elegy on the death of a friend's husband, focusing on the denial and hope and implausible resilience of the survivor, in the proud silent puzzlement of a cat left alone.
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No stories sounds implausible, disingenuous or worse.
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His version of economic determinism -- his theory that commerce usually pacifies-has a long intellectual pedigree and is not patently implausible.
European Fudging
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The creationist sort that posits implausible scenarios and doesn't seem aware that you cannot simply redate events in the history of Christianity without correlating this with what we know about the earlier or later period you are moving events or composition to.
Intelligently-Designed Narratives: Mythicism as History-Stopper
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I find this implausible and unnecessary2 and I have already settled on laryngealization ie. creaky phonation, with derivative word-internal pre-laryngealization, as a superior alternative to wholesale preglottalization in all environments.
Against the *dkmtóm camp
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Critics of Stanley Miller had often pointed to his use of an electric sparker as a highly implausible re-creation of the dynamics of early Earth.
First Contact
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To me this seems highly implausible on both notational and musical grounds.
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Margaret found his excuse somewhat implausible.
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Similarly, people like to believe that their native tongue is the zaniest, most mixed-up and implausible language on the planet.
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But even if it were possible to have nonsuccessive awareness of a vast succession, which Hartshorne would deny, it is even more implausible, from Hartshorne's point of view, to claim, as does Alston, that God could have nonsuccessive responses to stages of that succession.
Charles Hartshorne
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He was told quite recently that they had been taped over as a matter of routine, which does sound highly implausible.
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He gave a series of increasingly implausible excuses.
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Yet for all its appeal, the notion of solving our social problems with a body of knowledge derived from the artist and artisan is vastly implausible.
The Times Literary Supplement
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According to an unverifiable though not implausible tradition, in early times afflicted states were occasionally urged to dispatch a colony.
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Is it really implausible to ask these men of alleged character -- leaders of the purportedly character-building Penn State football program -- to eventually come to their senses, follow up on what they fumbled in the moment, and ensure that children were protected from further abuse by a predator and bringing him to justice, if not in the critical moment, at least before others were hurt?
Urizenus Sklar: What Would You Do?
