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plausibility

/plaw-zuh-buhl/US // ˈplɔ zə bəl //UK // (ˈplɔːzəbəl) //

可信性,可疑性,可信度,可行性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
    • : well-spoken and apparently, but often deceptively, worthy of confidence or trust: a plausible commentator.

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Examples

  • While we’re still in the midst of vaccine development, it’s quite plausible that an attack could happen to stall the progress or run a vaccine trial off-course.

  • While this makes it slightly more plausible, the numbers are still way too high.

  • That immense energy just barely qualified the flash as the first plausible FRB from the Milky Way.

  • More frequent or disruptive lapses of attention “is one plausible explanation for why heavier media multitasking is correlated with poorer memory,” the team said.

  • GPT-3 can now generate pretty plausible-looking text, and it’s still tiny compared to the brain.

  • But I can comment on a few aspects of the plausibility of the story.

  • Can she interpret the works of George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Cole Porter with plausibility?

  • Right now the first key to assessing the plausibility of this discovery is: what would float and what would not?

  • So plausibility doesn't always matter—except when it's the characters who suddenly seem implausible.

  • The plausibility of an Alawite enclave, meanwhile, has been a subject for debate.

  • They did not believe that absolute truth was attainable by man; and they attacked the prevailing systems with great plausibility.

  • The demand was enforced by considerations which were not without plausibility, and were presented in a seductive form.

  • The Duchess was admirable, in conversation, for neglecting everything not essential to her present plausibility.

  • I find many facts which seem to indicate the plausibility of this idea.

  • You have always been a plausible talker, and you have cloaked many criminal acts under that plausibility.