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  • noun Plural form of likelihood.

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  • Based on REAL, ACTUAL and RECENT Seattle history, should we not be concerned about "likelihoods" or "tendencies" or just common sense caution or should we just "go along and get along?"

    Sound Politics: FBI Searches For 11 Egyptian Men Missing in U.S. 2006

  • It has been developed to a complex web of "likelihoods", all of which are assigned fake "probability" levels. posted by GayandRight @ 9:31 AM

    Abolish the IPCC GayandRight 2007

  • It has been developed to a complex web of "likelihoods", all of which are assigned fake "probability" levels. posted by GayandRight @ 9:31 AM

    Archive 2007-10-01 GayandRight 2007

  • "Our analysis of the ... models suggest that the NASH system will likely intensify, expand and move further westward in the 21st century with the increase of CO2 [carbon dioxide], indicating increased likelihoods of both extreme rainfall events and droughts over the SE US in the future," the study states.

    Southeast rainfall more variable as climate warms Andrew Freedman 2010

  • First I have these conversations with world-class scientists who calmly lay out the scientific view of the various risks posed by climate change and their relative scale and likelihoods.

    2009 September | Serendipity 2009

  • First I have these conversations with world-class scientists who calmly lay out the scientific view of the various risks posed by climate change and their relative scale and likelihoods.

    2009 September 16 | Serendipity 2009

  • First I have these conversations with world-class scientists who calmly lay out the scientific view of the various risks posed by climate change and their relative scale and likelihoods.

    Gilding on The Parallel Universes of Climate Change | Serendipity 2009

  • Obviously there will be some unknowns, but if you combine those unknowns with current certainties and future likelihoods, you'll probably have more than enough information to support a rational decision.

    Carolyn Hax on an online dating quandary and more 2011

  • For more than an hour in his office, Van Hollen and company conversed in campaign argot about persuasion universes, swing universes, plussing up, snowbirds, enthusiasm gaps, persuasion IDs and statistical likelihoods.

    Maryland's Chris Van Hollen works to keep the House in Democrats' hands Jason Horowitz 2010

  • We want to know the likelihoods of the possible causes.

    Unreasonable Doubt Raymond Zhong 2011

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