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Recent Examples of unlikeliness
Listen 6 min Share Comment Save (3 stars) Calling Céline Dion one in a million undersells the unlikeliness of her career.
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Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
Highlighting the sheer unlikeliness of any book lasting for centuries, de Hamel shows how each of his subjects helped to preserve manuscripts for future generations, and finds in their stories hope for the survival of these unique works in the digital age and beyond.
—The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
Bogart and Bacall are as indelible a duo as there ever was, and Mann takes readers behind their legendary romance, exploring their individual careers, the stark age gap between them, and the unlikeliness of Bogart's movie stardom.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 May 2023
The sheer unlikeliness of the find (what would these creatures eat, after all?) cast doubt in the minds of some scientists that this is the organisms' true habitat.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2010
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Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
Highlighting the sheer unlikeliness of any book lasting for centuries, de Hamel shows how each of his subjects helped to preserve manuscripts for future generations, and finds in their stories hope for the survival of these unique works in the digital age and beyond.
—The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
Bogart and Bacall are as indelible a duo as there ever was, and Mann takes readers behind their legendary romance, exploring their individual careers, the stark age gap between them, and the unlikeliness of Bogart's movie stardom.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 May 2023
The sheer unlikeliness of the find (what would these creatures eat, after all?) cast doubt in the minds of some scientists that this is the organisms' true habitat.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2010
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlikeliness
Noun
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Chris Appelhans, Kang’s co-director, agreed about the unlikelihood of a live-action version.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Details matter, unlikelihoods abound, but if Trump can pull this off, that would be a huge accomplishment.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
3 Oct. 2025
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Capella Space, Umbra, and ICEYE provide synthetic aperture radar satellites commercially—another improbability is that there is not just one but multiple commercial SAR companies in the world.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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This is due to the extreme improbability that camera errors would correlate with specific historical dates.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Unlikeliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlikeliness. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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