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plausibility

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Newsnight has now been told that in 2019, the senior management team of Pizza Express looked into the plausibility of Mountbatten-Windsor's claim because they believed it was a matter of public interest.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Roth said large language models rely on token-by-token text prediction, optimizing for linguistic plausibility.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Holland is one of many observers questioning the plausibility of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz returning to its pre-war levels any time soon.

From MarketWatch Apr. 8, 2026

Other experts have quibbled with certain details, questioning the plausibility of a “bolt from the blue” attack or noting that the U.S. would almost certainly launch many more interceptors.

From Slate Mar. 13, 2026

I felt that what I wanted that scene to say to the reader was more important than its surface reality or plausibility.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright