likeliness
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It may also minimize the likeliness that you’ll feel additional pressure in the future to go along with the general family excitement about a second child and give them what you think they want.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2021
“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
Running won’t turn you into a yoga guru, but improving your balance now will lower the likeliness of falling as you age, says Fieseler, also the president of the American Medical Athletic Association.
From US News • Sep. 30, 2016
But likeliness, like Elvis, has left the building.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2016
This preparedness increased the likeliness of a clash.
From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon
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