Example Sentences

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He prides himself on thinking probabilistically and making decisions based on expected value.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

Salon previously reported that, despite the seemingly divergent numbers, most handicappers encourage their readers to think about their numbers probabilistically.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024

His approach, in the spirit of Shannon, was to think about language probabilistically.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2023

His research paper builds the case probabilistically, the mathematical term for extracting likelihood from chaos.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos