likeliness
Americannoun
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“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
“For the first half of the 20th century, many female cartoonists wrote under ambiguous or masculine names, just to increase their likeliness for publication.”
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2016
There are straightforward questions about likeliness to watch again or to recommend the show, and more specific queries about things like script and acting quality, concept and setting.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2013
So when Arthur was gone she turned all into the likeliness as she and they were before, and said, Sirs, now may we go where we will.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
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