How To Use Improbable In A Sentence
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With Maureen and Jane it seemed improbable, but every now and then I caught myself wondering if the tempestuous Alessandra felt even a slight tendresse.
Why Women Still Don't Get It
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That may sound improbable, but actually we use multi-tracks all the time.
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These new facts make the theory improbable.
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There are many - too many - first-person accounts of illness but because she doesn't seek to entertain us we are spared the improbable levity and mordant wit that have become standard.
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So far the trend is that the self-assembly paradigm gets more convoluted and improbable as the search continues, and the design paradigm gets more and more plausible.
A Good Saturday Evening Flick
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The trainer of the Queen's pigeons, an East Anglian with the improbable name of Carlo Napolitano, was at Sun City.
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The Tokyo Motor Show is not the antic sideshow of wacky and improbable concept vehicles it once was.
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Such an explanation does not account for the distinctive ontogeny of interpositum, or for the absence of the improbable shell form which associates very thin and dense ribbing with globose general shape.
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Over the course of the seven years that follow, Dana Scully risks her life investigating alien abduction cases, murders committed by genetic mutants like a man who eats livers and can stretch his body in improbable ways or a boy who is able to summon lightning or a giant flukeworm which has evolved to have a humanoid appearance and serial killers, some of whom may be incarnations of the devil.
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He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies.
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I find it highly improbable, almost impossible, that poor minions who were duped into planting explosive fire extinguishers which ended up in mass murder of their fellow citizens would remain silent all these years for fear of their own, guilt-ridden lives.
1000 Architects and Engineers
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He said he might stop smiling if his side lose six on the trot, but right now, such a run feels highly improbable.
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'Tis not improbable also, but that our _taste_ may be very much improv'd either by _preparing_ our taste for the Body, as, after eating _bitter_ things, _Wine_, or other _Vinous liquors_, are more sensibly tasted; or else by _preparing_ Bodies for our tast; as the dissolving of Metals with acid Liquors, make them tastable, which were before altogether insipid; thus _Lead_ becomes _sweeter_ then Sugar, and _Silver_ more _bitter_ then
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
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No matter how improbable it may seem to you in this terrible time, someday you will laugh again.
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Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style.
The Certain Hour
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A failed raid would have almost certainly made a second term highly improbable, if not impossible.
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The opinion that the name Jahveh was adopted by the Jews from the Chanaanites, has been defended … but has been rejected … It is antecedently improbable that Jahveh, the irreconcilable enemy of the Chanaanites, should be originally a Chanaanite god …
Jhvh is the enemy of god and man
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Britain need the inevitable errors to be committed by their rivals so that their improbable success story continues.
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I have a neat piece of software with the improbable name of Delicious Library.
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Even casual observation makes this hypothesis improbable.
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Sorry if that all sounds a bit pretentious and improbable.
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Al – Gundubah (“one locust-man”) smites off the head of his mother’s servile murderer and cries, I have taken my blood-revenge upon this traitor slave’” (Lane, M.E. chaps. xx iii.) 128 This gathering all the persons upon the stage before the curtain drops is highly artistic and improbable.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He is coming from a club environment where the improbable is regularly hunted down.
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Nevertheless, the Foxton project was mysteriously improbable even if there had been no internal combustion on the way.
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Thus it was that an improbable literary alliance, and a lifelong friendship, began.
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CSI is measured as an improbable specified pattern which uses up all probabilistic resources and thus rules out chance as a best explanation.
A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer)
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Which of these improbable facts is true?
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Which of these improbable facts is true?
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The film tells the improbable story of a monkey that becomes a politician.
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I do not mean, that calling a boy Cicero will certainly make him an orator, or that all Jeremiahs are necessarily prophets; nor is it improbable, that the same peculiarities in the parents, which dictate these expressive names, may direct the characters of the children, by controlling their education; but it is unquestionable, that the characteristics, and even the fortunes of the man, are frequently daguerreotyped by a name given in infancy.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
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There followed a series of political manoeuvres from which one man, the King's brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, emerged as a somewhat improbable champion of English and baronial interests.
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The interplay between text messaging and radio is as improbable as the convergence of cameras and phones.
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Last year, the improbable storyline involved Slovakia's miracle run to the semifinals, accomplished primarily on the backs of offensive force Tomas Tatar and the miraculous netminding of Jaroslav Janus.
Swiss goalie beefs up his status with strong play at world juniors
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Not only was it regarded as supremely self-serving, but both outcomes were highly improbable.
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It all sounded highly improbable.
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We see her tremulous schoolgirl self auditioning for the band along with a trio of equally improbable hopefuls: a ukulele-playing nun, an upper-crust saxophonist and a male drummer ready to don a frock to dodge the draft.
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The story is a series of improbable events that lead to armed ex-convicts toting a nuclear device to a plane bound for the Bahamas.
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a case it was not improbable that the army might be destroyed as an organization, and there is a vast difference between a _destroyed_ army and a _defeated_ army.
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI
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And to this conjecture I will venture to subjoin another, which hath also its probability, viz. that it is not improbable but the familiars of witches are a vile kind of spirits of a very inferior constitution and nature; and none of those that were once of the highest hierarchy now degenerated into the spirits we call devils ....
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
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Not only was it regarded as supremely self-serving, but both outcomes were highly improbable.
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In contrast, the A. afarensis bone resembled that of the flat-footed apes, making it improbable that its foot had an arch like our own.
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Which of these improbable facts is true?
The Sun
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Which of these improbable facts is true?
The Sun
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Sunshine, sixes and cider - and a quite improbable victory to boot.
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His explanation seems highly improbable.
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It is very / most improbable that the level of unemployment will fall.
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In "Pinafore"—itself a hilariously improbable name for a battleship—Gilbert also took aim at one of the nation's most cherished institutions, the British navy, hallowed guardian of the sea-girt isle.
Gilbert & Sullivan, Parody's Patresfamilias
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It is very / most improbable that the level of unemployment will fall.
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No flight of fancy was too improbable, no wild accusation too unlikely.
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest published a statement this week saying further testing is necessary: “Because the new analyses seem so improbable, confirmatory studies using the best analytical method need to be done before the alarm bells ring too loudly.”
Soda drinkers beware: You may be consuming more fructose than you thought
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Runners were described as ‘rowing their legs to a rapid tempo’, just the sort of improbable turn of phrase which was in fact beloved by the classical baroque.
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it was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances
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In Scott, this tension plays itself out through the apparently contradictory styles of world-historical narrative and the "seemingly improbable portal of antiquarianism" 59.
The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950
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Her hair was an improbable shade of yellow.
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By analyzing the sources of return, however, it can be easily seen that a repetition of that historical performance is improbable.
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A roast sweetbread was sauced with a Madeira and truffle mix of improbable delicacy.
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A mere year ago this outcome would have been considered wildly improbable.
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A roast sweetbread was sauced with a Madeira and truffle mix of improbable delicacy.
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It is not improbable that he was succeeded in the priorate by Julian about 1009, but there seems to be no satisfactory evidence that he was ever Bishop of Gubbio.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Neither side has asserted that the sworn evidence is inherently improbable.
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Each individual instance may be highly improbable, but in total it is almost certain that there will continually be major shocks.
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A failed raid would have almost certainly made a second term highly improbable, if not impossible.
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Before we knew it, we were celebrating one of the greatest and most improbable victories of all time.
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In the battle field of mind, to live consciously is not only improbable but also unbelievable.
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The young, lovely widow dithered between laughter and tears as her three photogenic (if genetically improbable) children machinated to get themselves a new daddy.
Murder to Go
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That now looks improbable, given the lack of credit available to fund a full cash bid.
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There seems to be no way out and rack my brains as I did, I could not see an answer to the question, other than the improbable melodrama of her embracing a closed religious order.
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Sunshine, sixes and cider - and a quite improbable victory to boot.
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This opinion seems the less improbable, as the person to whom Chettle is most apologetic excels in a quality or profession, which is contrasted with, and is not identical with, "his facetious grace in writing" -- a parergon, or "bye-work," in his case.
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
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F arther upriver there were tiny azure damselflies, flying needles of improbable colour.
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It would need a gigantic and vanishingly improbable leap across genetic hyperspace.
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It seems improbable that the current situation will continue.
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Finally, it will be hard to resist Company XIV Pinocchio: A Fantasy Of Pleasures, a wildly improbable mix of baroque ballet, commedia dell'arte, street dance and Fellini-esque surrealism that re-invents the familiar fairytale.
This week's new dance
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It is equally improbable to expect Euroland economies to adopt supply-side reforms designed to boost long term growth when the short term impact will likely prove deflationary against a backdrop of faltering domestic demand.
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Sorry if that all sounds a bit pretentious and improbable.
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The solution of several apicomplexan, acanthocephalan and trematode parasites to this problem is a particularly efficient yet improbable one.
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The structures of life, from DNA helices to Austrian physicists, are wonderfully, gloriously improbable.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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The Belgian _savant_ considers this somewhat improbable explanation as supported by a case wherein there were five calyx lobes of uniform size, and a detached feather-veined leaf proceeding from the side of the ovary lower down ( 'Bull.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Added to this improbable mix is a duet for two men playing billiards.
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Let's make up an improbable showbiz success story.
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Labour's unlikely leader was terse and uncharismatic but very effective - the improbable Mr Attlee.
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U.'s dissertation is an improbable international bestseller.
Christianity Today
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Or jeans 'chemically distressed in ways that suggested baroquely improbable patterns of wear'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The film's only weakness is that the twists and improbable coincidences are almost too melodramatic for their own good.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
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Beltran left as a free agent for megabucks from the Mets, making a 2005 repeat by the Astros difficult, if not improbable.
USATODAY.com - Astros looking good as postseason nears
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Seen in repose on a table, with their eccentric keys and multiple drones protruding from a bag, they look like an improbable squid.
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But now he has a chance to do something as improbable as anything hitherto: to conquer golf for a second time.
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That might sound improbable, but so are all conjuring tricks - that is the point of them.
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This makes any thought of a rescue highly improbable.
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The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).
Cover to Cover
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The theist can not deny that DNA replication could have come about by an exceedingly improbable chance.
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Each individual instance may be highly improbable, but in total it is almost certain that there will continually be major shocks.
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Such conditions make the prospect of income tax rises not only improbable but economically irresponsible.
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This makes any thought of a rescue highly improbable.
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Which of these improbable facts is true?
The Sun
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So the reasons for and against the evolution theory almost balance one another; and it is not improbable that the hypothesis of an origin of species through development will have to share its authority with the hypothesis of a descent of species through heterogenetic generation, as well as with the hypothesis of a primitive generation of lower organisms, still repeating itself at a later time.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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And yet the story of the Sidonian Cadmus, which is so improbable, has been readily believed, and also innumerable other tales.
Laws
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He nearly took an improbable half a point but his final putt lipped out.
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This 1963 play, which flopped twice in a row on Broadway, is one of Williams's ripest exercises in Southern-fried Gothicism, a parable about a rich, imperious and scared old lady with the improbable name of Flora Goforth (Olympia Dukakis) who is dictating her memoirs to an uptight Ivy League prig (Maggie Lacey) in a frantic attempt to set the record straight before she dies of cancer.
The Most Sweetly Delectable Musical
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A further note on Victor's improbable career: when he is not creating life in the lab, or necromancing with mummy DNA, he apparently vivisects chimpanzees.
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The development of a coiled conch by only stochastic variation, or as a result of structural constraints alone, is considered highly improbable.
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The company has been an improbable growth story.
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They don't even seem to be bothered that many of their stories contradict one another or are highly improbable.
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Thus it was that an improbable literary alliance, and a lifelong friendship, began.
Times, Sunday Times
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Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their
The Certain Hour
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Today investors who wish to preserve the real value or purchasing power of their money must get to grips with concepts that could seem equally improbable.
Times, Sunday Times
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On any view it seems highly improbable that these funds represent legitimate taxed earnings.
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Well, it's a theory, an improbable one, but harmless fun to contemplate.
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Thus it was that an improbable literary alliance, and a lifelong friendship, began.
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That's not so much a problem if you discard objective truth as improbable and inherently unprovable (like myself), but by God, if you're going to be religious, do it right.
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Biologists disagree about whether natural selection makes increased complexity probable or improbable.
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It seems improbable that a mother can effectively teach adolescents how to deal with multiple demands upon their time if she is unable to set aside periods for self-renewal.
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The film tells the improbable story of a monkey that becomes a politician.
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The author's conclusion: Earth is the sole abode of intelligent life in the galaxy, the product of a profoundly improbable sequence of cosmic, geologic and climatic events—some thoroughly documented, some inferable from fragmentary evidence—that allowed our planet to become a unique refuge where life could develop to its full potential.
The Loneliest Planet
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One glance at their healthy-looking and cheerful toddler playing in the corner - despite a bit of a cough, a few snuffles and some pale spots on the trunk - is enough to make this diagnosis highly improbable.
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Let's make up an improbable showbiz success story.
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They and their two children live nearby in a crazy, book-filled house at the furthest end of an improbable road.
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She is a most improbable superstar, this small, talkative, unshowy, and resoundingly English mother of two.
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The improbable tale of Hero and Leander is exposed by M. Mahudel, but is defended on the authority of poets and medals by M. de la Nauze.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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It is improbable that a timetable for decommissioning would be enough to prevent him from resigning as First Minister and collapsing the executive.
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As this is ballet, like opera, there are lots of improbable plot twists before the story concludes with a happy ending.
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Whipping out lickety-split footwork and curiously fey gestures in improbable succession, his character seemed controlled by external forces.
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The notion that peace demonstrators had arrived at a demonstration tooled-up with cudgels and swords seemed improbable to practically everyone bar the time.
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She was one of those astonishing Victorian women who conquered mountains and crossed scorching deserts corseted in whalebone and steel, sporting smart designer tweeds and improbable hats.
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The improbable combo, including stand-up bass and flugelhorn, is as incongruous as its frontman.
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She virtually invented boho-chic: swirly tiered skirts, fringed shawls and improbable headdresses, worn with an insouciant slash of scarlet lipstick on her sensuous lips.
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The proposition is that everything is possible - no matter how improbable, if you devise the correct marketing strategy.
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From there, their improbable story unfolded.
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Each individual instance may be highly improbable, but in total it is almost certain that there will continually be major shocks.
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This makes any thought of a rescue highly improbable.
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Wedlock is the incredible story of her transformation from one of eighteenth-century England's richest, most free-wheeling heiresses into a piteous victim of a cruel, manipulative abuser into an improbable poster-child for modern women's rights.
Wedlock: Summary and book reviews of Wedlock by Wendy Moore.
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The company has been an improbable growth story.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the most improbable fiction, the reader still desires some air of vraisemblance, and does not relish that the incidents of a tale familiar to him should be altered to suit the taste of critics, or the caprice of the Author himself.
Waverley
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On the face of it, their marriage seems an improbable alliance.
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It still sounds highly improbable, but just imagine if it worked.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the most improbable event occurs when he decides he wants a love life and asks to be given a human appearance.
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Garner has wrestled with dozens of difficult decisions during this improbable 42-14 run.
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When he then birdied the 6th to tie for the lead, something highly improbable appeared to be unfolding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sunshine, sixes and cider - and a quite improbable victory to boot.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dancer who jumps highest, turns fastest, or splits legs into the most physically improbable position is the best.
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It seems improbable that the current situation will continue.
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Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
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No, randomness is not "inimical" to free will; it is *different* from free will, to be sure, but there is nothing inconceivable or improbable about a universe in which both free will and randomness exist, are fundamental, and interact with each other in complex ways.
Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
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He had the makings of a hero... improbable perhaps, ill-fated perhaps, but a hero nonetheless.
PASSION AND ILLUSION
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The film's only weakness is that the twists and improbable coincidences are almost too melodramatic for their own good.
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Pelle's head, and round about it went, striking the most improbable objects, _dum, dum, dum_, as though in wild, demoniacal obedience to the flute-like tones of the journeyman.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
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The improbable comedy horror returns for another bite.
The Sun
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Today investors who wish to preserve the real value or purchasing power of their money must get to grips with concepts that could seem equally improbable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The concourse and neatly manicured grass of the Olympic Park seem an improbable distance away.
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There seems no urgent case to change a winning formula but a repeat of the blissful weather and perfect ground of last October is highly improbable.
Times, Sunday Times
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But now he has a chance to do something as improbable as anything hitherto: to conquer golf for a second time.
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Given the share price movement, an equity issue looks improbable.
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It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology and never written any novels at all.
The New Yorker
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He said he might stop smiling if his side lose six on the trot, but right now, such a run feels highly improbable.
Times, Sunday Times
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A similar circumstance was observed after an earthquake at Valparaiso, Calabria, and other places, including some of the ancient Greek temples. 137 This twisting displacement at first appears to indicate a vorticose movement beneath each point thus affected; but this is highly improbable.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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The opinion that the name Jahveh was adopted by the Jews from the Chanaanites, has been defended … but has been rejected … It is antecedently improbable that Jahveh, the irreconcilable enemy of the Chanaanites, should be originally a Chanaanite god …
Jhvh is the enemy of god and man
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But now he has a chance to do something as improbable as anything hitherto: to conquer golf for a second time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film's only weakness is that the twists and improbable coincidences are almost too melodramatic for their own good.
Times, Sunday Times
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This improbable though captivating adventure slides neatly from sickly empire to bloody revolution that tears the lovers apart.
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It seems improbable that America's allies will oppose the proposed arms reduction.
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It is not, therefore, to be supposed improbable, that a portion of the infinitely small particles, thus suspended in the atmosphere, should effect a settlement in the more minute air-cells, and in course of time, be conveyed to the interlobular cellular tissue by the process of absorption, and thence to the bronchial glands.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners
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What is more improbable is that the Genetic Supermarket, with its emphasis upon individual choice, will bring this possibility nearer.
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What was always an improbable scenario, the Granita restaurant myth, has become a quite unreal fantasy.
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Even casual observation makes this hypothesis improbable.
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When he then birdied the 6th to tie for the lead, something highly improbable appeared to be unfolding.
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Seen in repose on a table, with their eccentric keys and multiple drones protruding from a bag, they look like an improbable squid.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is improbable that when completed by Hadrian any portion of the temple was hypaethral.
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A failed raid would have almost certainly made a second term highly improbable, if not impossible.
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Rather it's the incoherent screenplay, direction which jerks from one improbable setting to another and lets itself wander off into teen romance.
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I got four pastel pencils in magenta, imperial purple, dark cornflower and a brighter blue and made some light sketches in these improbable colours.
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A chap by the improbable name of Monty Nebinger emails to offer his services.
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Horses were threaded through improbable gaps, propelled forwards to deeds of which they considered themselves incapable.
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But the Miocene and Eocene periods were certainly warm, and these alpine plants could hardly have migrated over tropical forest lands, while it is very improbable that if they had been isolated at so remote a period, exposed to such distinct climatal and organic environments as in Madagascar and Abyssinia, they would have in both places retained their specific characters unchanged.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
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We know that local councils are strapped for cash but such a munificent gesture from the councillors also seems somewhat improbable!
3 posts from May 2009
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The most improbable of explanations were routinely passed off as worthy of serious consideration.
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I thought that was improbable, but I have to say that one of the minor compensations now of losing stereo is that I have a stronger sense of visual composition.
Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye'
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When does a half-cooked notion, a conspiracy theory or a tissue of vaguely sourced and improbable claims become an item of journalistic "fact"?
Iran, Syria—and Seymour Hersh
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AP Interview: New Miss Universe says title an unlikely achievement after early setback Miss Universe says crown fulfills improbable goalNASSAU, Bahamas - The 2009 Miss Universe says her title fulfills a lifelong dream - and an improbable one for a girl who finished last in one of her first beauty pageants.
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Especially impressive is Oliver Chris, who as Stanley one of Francis's two masters has many of the zingiest lines and exudes an improbable mixture of snooty arrogance and charm.
Evening Standard - Home
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When he then birdied the 6th to tie for the lead, something highly improbable appeared to be unfolding.
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The reproducibility of land was physically improbable and entailed prohibitively high marginal costs in all but exceptional circumstances.
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That's an area where it seems improbable to go that fast because it's so congested.
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an improbable event
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This green kuku has an improbable amount of herbs, plus spices, onion and tender walnuts; consider the eggs as binder.
Green eggs and wham: The fresh herb kuku
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Quick as dawn, the dogwoods have raised improbable awnings, christened with rain.
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But from exility of bones, thinness of skulls, smallness of teeth, ribs, and thigh-bones, not improbable that many thereof were persons of minor age, or woman.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Such conditions make the prospect of income tax rises not only improbable but economically irresponsible.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was one of those astonishing Victorian women who conquered mountains and crossed scorching deserts corseted in whalebone and steel, sporting smart designer tweeds and improbable hats.
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In contrast, the A. afarensis bone resembled that of the flat-footed apes, making it improbable that its foot had an arch like our own.
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In other words, a supernatural being that ‘reveals’ itself in the natural world, through personal appearances, visitations, the enactment of miracles, the impartation of moral codices, etc., is not merely highly improbable but impossible and the application of rigorous logic has demonstrated this to be so.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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On their way from playoff also-rans to just plain also rans, the Timberwolves have made an improbable detour into the NBA's elite.
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There were, too, those even more improbable gadgets which receive telemetered information from beyond the blue of the sky.
Space Platform
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In another work, a cabaret contortionist with marcelled hair smokes a cigarette and reads a book in an improbable state of repose.
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His explanation seems highly improbable.
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The real action takes place within the claustrophobic world of a school that would be improbable anywhere.
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The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).
Cover to Cover
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They could get a snootful of jet fumes as campaign planes shuttle candidates back and forth overhead between improbable destinations in closely contested states.
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From there, their improbable story unfolded.
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