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probability noun anticipation, appearance of truth, believability, chance, conceivability, credibility, expectation, fair chance, fair expectation, favorable chance, liability, liableness, likelihood, likeliness, odds, plausibility, possibility, presumption, promise, prospect, reasonable chance, reasonableness, tendency, veri similitudo, verisimilitude See also: chance, expectation, likelihood, outlook, possibility, presumption, prospect, supposition PROBABILITY. That which is likely to happen; that which is most consonant to reason; for example, there is a strong probability that a man of a good moral character, and who has heretofore been remarkable for truth, will, when examined as a witness under oath, tell the truth; and, on the contrary, that a man who has been guilty of perjury, will not, under the same circumstances, tell the truth; the former will, therefore, be entitled to credit, while the latter will not. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``The problem always with retinoblastoma is that when you're dealing with a very rare cancer like this, a few cases can seem like a cluster when it's just a random distribution. Using test results from a random distribution of people in the United States, he and James R. In fact, there were substantially fewer crimes than would be expected by a random distribution model. |
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