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improbable

Something that is improbable is not likely to happen. He needs to consider every outcome, even the most improbable ones.

improbable

(= unlikely) not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred legislation on the question is highly unlikely an improbable event (= tall) too improbable to admit of belief a tall story having a probability too low to inspire belief

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Simple sentences

It seemed improbable that Tom would succeed.
Your explanation won't wash; it's too improbable to be true.
The statement sounds improbable.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
It's improbable.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
That's highly improbable.
Mathematically, everything's good. But it seems completely improbable to me.
It's very improbable.

Movie subtitles

And you must be prepared for the improbable.
It seems improbable.
You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common.
But why should I stick my neck out. on the improbable chance that they might ground the ship?
AND THESE ARE THE IMPROBABLE INGREDIENTS TO A HUMAN EMOTION.
But, in just a moment, that hope chest will be opened, and an improbable phantom will try to bedeck the drabness of these two people's failure-laden lives with the gold and precious stones of fulfillment.
Four intelligent men talking about an improbable thing like going back in time.
We are witnessing something.. whichhistorianswillalways say is completely improbable.. andyetit is true.
It may sound improbable, but do you know the goodwill in the hearts of our crew turned out to be practically boundless.
No, just, uh, highly improbable.
It is improbable.
Improbable as it may seem, dear boy, I think the child, er, Dorothea.
Yes, yes, improbable, dear boy, but possible. Definitely possible!
Because it's the most improbable.
Life is so gloriously improbable.
But to have found you. this is too improbable.
You see, I imagine that all this may sound a little improbable if you haven't studied it. Would it help if I would talk to him?
I admit, it sounds improbable.
They regard it as highly improbable.
And in this room you'll watch miss agnes moorehead in a tension-riddled attempt at escape from a pair of very improbable housebreakers.
We are witnessing something which historians will always say is completely improbable and yet it is true.
I put my faith in an improbable and private image of a fatherly god.
I won't say it is impossible to happen but I can't agree with you either since such a thing is highly improbable.
No, just highly improbable.
Of course, the story itself is very improbable.
Oh, yes, very improbable.
Yes, yes, improbable, dear boy, but possible.
The people in the capital contend that this improbable story took place in Moscow.
So improbable we almost didn't check it.
It may seem improbable, but I'm wondering what'll happen to you.
It's improbable. - But not impossible.
Isn't your story a little improbable, Mr. Cochrane?
That sounds quite improbable but let's have a try.
The relative size, age and composition of this planet makes it highly improbable that it would evolve similarly to Earth in any way.

News and current affairs

In both cases, what seems desirable appears highly improbable.
Unfortunately, such an outcome seems improbable now, especially since the US is unlikely to rejoin the talks anytime soon.
But starting a new cycle of institutional negotiations also seems improbable.
Since a military solution is highly improbable, what are the serious alternatives?
This makes it highly improbable that we will reach the three-hour working day by 2030.
A quick resolution of the Senkaku Islands dispute (or of Japan's lower-profile conflict with South Korea over the Korean-controlled Liancourt Rocks) is improbable, but Japan could be more proactive.
The improbable theme that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose for the conference is energy security.
An alluring prospect, but perhaps improbable.
But that halcyon scenario looks increasingly improbable.
Around the table sat improbable allies: some had been prominent officials in Qaddafi's regime; others had spent many years in prison under sentence of death.
It seems improbable that such enterprises should exist in Bolivia, a fragile democracy, and the hemisphere's poorest place next to Haiti.
The computer metaphor thus implies that living organisms are material systems that, facing an unforeseeable future, arrive at improbable solutions so that some of their progeny can survive in unpredictable conditions.
While such an outcome may be improbable, it would be complacent folly to dismiss the possibility.
For this reason, hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted in advertising improbable companies on TV and building network capacity beyond any foreseeable need.
Whichever way you look at it, the ECB - and with it Europe - is being forced into an endgame with three once-improbable outcomes.
But it is hardly more improbable than many of the other massive bailouts we have seen around the world in the wake of the recent financial crisis.
Nor is it improbable that a protracted war in Libya would end by vindicating the warning of the region's authoritarian rulers that the Arab Awakening is but a prelude to chaos.
There will presumably be months of attempts to build coalitions out of improbable alliances; then maybe there will be another election (assuming Parliament can change the law mandating its five-year term).
The court - with its improbable blend of Cambodian and foreign judges and attorneys as well as laws - is meant to be a model for judicial reform and independent justice in a country where impunity has long been the rule.

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