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"ref": "2009 May 24, Laura Miller, “Faking It”, in New York Times:",
"text": "His parents — a restless, titanically self-involved father and a mother who cultivated her inner life in strict solitude — seem a much likelier source for his condition.",
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"ref": "2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:",
"text": "Still, Saints looked the likeliest to make the breakthrough, and it came when Jonny Evans could only half-clear a long ball and Chaplow took full advantage.",
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"text": "They are likely to become angry with him.",
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{
"text": "He is likely to succeed at anything he tries.",
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"ref": "2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:",
"text": "People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?",
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"ref": "2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:",
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"(as predicate, followed by to and infinitive) Reasonably to be expected; apparently destined, probable."
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{
"text": "The relationship with social status is a likely topic for investigation.",
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"lang": "Armenian",
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"word": "հավանական"
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"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
"word": "gwirheñvel"
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"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
"word": "вероятен"
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"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
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"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
"word": "todennäköinen"
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"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
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"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
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"word": "valószínű"
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"lang": "Hunsrik",
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"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
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"word": "pravdepodobný"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring",
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"code": "uk",
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"word": "імові́рний"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "adatto"
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"sense": "appropriate; believable; having a good potential",
"word": "подходящ"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "appropriate; believable; having a good potential",
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{
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"word": "esélyes"
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{
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"word": "promettente"
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{
"code": "lv",
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"word": "ticams"
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{
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"word": "го́дный"
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{
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{
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"code": "de",
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"code": "hu",
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{
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"ref": "2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-14:",
"text": "Dismounting on the sidewalk, their helmets still on, they fall into a lengthy conversation. Their dialogue is known only to them. But there is something the men themselves likely don’t know: About a mile away, from a windowless room, two other men are watching them.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Probably."
],
"links": [
[
"Probably",
"probably"
]
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈlaɪkli/"
},
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}
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