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
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
This that I have told you is gospel truth; and all the other things that you hear about the Emperor are foolish stories with no human likeliness.
From Folk-Tales of Napoleon The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder by Kennan, George
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