adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a likely/plausible scenario
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The more likely scenario is that support for the group will wane.
a plausible/convincing story
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She tried to think up a convincing story to tell her parents.
a reasonable/plausible excuse (= one that other people will believe )
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If your train was cancelled, that is a perfectly reasonable excuse.
a reasonable/plausible explanation (= one that is easy to believe )
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Pilot error is the most plausible explanation for the crash.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
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As we shall see in Chapter 2, this claim has now become less plausible and less acceptable.
more
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Unless some one more plausible comes forward, therefore, the challenge is likely to have two results.
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Indeed, our scenarios are nothing more than invitations to everyone to write better, more plausible , even more desirable outcomes.
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Therefore, word sequences that are grammatically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are grammatically unacceptable.
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I found imagining myself as a bond salesman only marginally more plausible than imagining myself as a bond trader.
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Hence, a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past.
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It looks more plausible to play 21 ... d8 and then invade on d4 with a knight.
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A more plausible alternative was the renovation of existing buildings, some of which had originally been solid structures.
most
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There were other possibilities but for the moment these seemed the most plausible .
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His name was Sinon, and he was a most plausible speaker.
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The reader can decide which of the possible explanations is the most plausible .
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It was the one where the reassurance of the central tradition might seem to be most plausible .
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The most plausible explanation is that pauses are used by a speaker for planning what to say next.
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Even if she had the most plausible answers, there still would be folks wishing Clinton would continue to take political pratfalls.
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The market clearing paradigm is reasonably robust and the Rational Expectations assumption is here most plausible .
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The most plausible explanation of this observation is an abrupt, massive, global acidification of rainwater.
quite
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It is of course quite plausible that the principle of monetary judgments applied in formulary procedure.
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Thus it is quite plausible to suggest that see evokes some form of inference here.
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Standing on these dramatic cliffs, the legends of the area seem quite plausible .
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Miracle in the figurative sense, since although we do not know how cells evolved, quite plausible scenarios have been proposed.
very
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This reply sounds very plausible , until one reflects on it; and then a serious difficulty emerges.
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I shall try to show that neither of them is very plausible .
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This is certainly a very plausible alternative explanation for the demise of the Daily Herald.
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But for other experiments the interpretation seems very plausible .
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Cusack is a very plausible Rob, hangdog, clever, alienated, mopey and dopey.
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But efforts to work out this atomistic society in detail are not very plausible .
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But Preston had thought that very plausible at the time.
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The second was surely never very plausible , and has now been generally abandoned.
■ NOUN
case
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But it is quite possible to think of plausible cases .
excuse
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No. 17. finding the plausible excuse Think of some situation where one needs tact and diplomacy.
explanation
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Try processing all the relevant information contained in the problem to help you come up with one plausible explanation .
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But that scenario presented geophysicists with a radical yet plausible explanation for the anti-continents.
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There is only one really plausible explanation .
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The most plausible explanation of this observation is an abrupt, massive, global acidification of rainwater.
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Coalition mongering is the only plausible explanation .
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Thus, the observer effect is not a plausible explanation of the phenomenon.
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Convincing them otherwise would take double-blind trials and a plausible explanation of how the sensitivity might arise.
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The most plausible explanation is that pauses are used by a speaker for planning what to say next.
scenario
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This, too, is a plausible scenario .
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Miracle in the figurative sense, since although we do not know how cells evolved, quite plausible scenarios have been proposed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His explanation sounds fairly plausible to me.
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I need to think of a plausible excuse for not going to the meeting.
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Langham's story sounded plausible at the time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although she is pretend-reading and she guesses what the print probably says rather than decoding the print, her story sounds plausible .
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But it is quite possible to think of plausible cases.
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In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level.
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In comparison with fabliaux like that, the misbehaviour of the monk and the wife is all too deliberate and plausible .
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Students may well differ in how plausible they find efficient-market theory.
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The most plausible explanation of this observation is an abrupt, massive, global acidification of rainwater.
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Where the medium is not continuous on the scale of the measurement being made the assumption is not so plausible .