probabilistic
Americanadjective
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Statistics. of or relating to probability.
probabilistic forecasting.
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of or relating to probabilism.
Etymology
Origin of probabilistic
1650–60; probabil(ism) or probabil(ity) + -istic; compare French probabiliste believer in probabilism
Example Sentences
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It is about how probabilistic predictions can become standardized operational decisions absent further verification.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
But lowering the bar for algorithmic alerts based on probabilistic estimates effectively expands the number of people subjected to police attention.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
But ultimately, their output is probabilistic, and if something is right 99.999% of the time, that also means it’s wrong 0.001% of the time.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
In several conversations in his office, Mr. Bessent, 63, speaks about all these global challenges the way a trader might talk about a volatile market: with a mixture of confidence and probabilistic hedging.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
A very long hitting streak in baseball is a particularly amazing sort of record, so unlikely as to seem virtually unachievable and almost immune to probabilistic prediction.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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