likeliness
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The Bloomberg piece focuses more on explaining the particulars of how it could be done than on fact-checking the likeliness that it will bury as much carbon as proposed.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2019
“If only one in 100 adult orangutans is removed from a population per year, this population has a high likeliness to go extinct.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2018
A forensic psychologist for the defense said he recommended Griego receive five more years of treatment, despite the likeliness that Griego's treatment at Sequoyah Lodge would likely end in 2018.
From US News • Feb. 11, 2016
But likeliness, like Elvis, has left the building.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2016
Probability is likeliness to be true, the very notation of the word signifying such a proposition, for which there be arguments or proofs to make it pass, or be received for true.
From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by Locke, John
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