[
UK
/plˈɔːzəbli/
]
[ US /ˈpɫɔzəbɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫɔzəbɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
easy to believe on the basis of available evidence
he will probably win the election
he talked plausibly before the committee
How To Use plausibly In A Sentence
- The only way to break such impasses is not through some kind of plausibly democratic process -- e.g., Balkinization
- The film quite plausibly suggests that her interpretation makes the wrong things of the right ideas.
- Here, because the second sentence contains no verb to orient it in time and may plausibly be attributed to either the narrator or the character, it acts as a sort of atemporal link between the voices of narrator and character.
- Thus, she plausibly can present herself as tough-minded here (more than plausibly perhaps - few have ever questioned her toughness).
- Operations intended to be plausibly deniable usually end up as neither, and the Agency gets blamed for the unintended consequences.
- The panpsychist conception of mind must be sufficiently broad to plausibly encompass humans and non-human objects as well.
- Is there any major problem lacking a current remedy for which Washington could plausibly offer a solution?
- With her long features and battered trilby, she also makes a plausibly boyish Ganymede.
- Important recent research by Marcus Raichle and his collaborators indicates a default, monitoring mode of brain activity, plausibly interpreted as including representations of one's current hedonic state, in the ventromedial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortices, that is turned down by attention-demanding tasks, even by ones involving introspection into one's current affective state (Gusnard et al. 2001, Gusnard and Raichle 2004, Pleasure
- In any case, I don't believe that any of the 100-odd instances of faith in the King James Version are plausibly construable as verbs.