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Probable   /prˈɑbəbəl/   Listen
Probable

adjective
1.
Likely but not certain to be or become true or real.  Synonym: likely.  "He foresaw a probable loss"
2.
Apparently destined.
noun
1.
An applicant likely to be chosen.



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"Probable" Quotes from Famous Books



... think it would be a good thing if you were to give her a hint to keep it to herself. It may have no bearing whatever on the crime. It's not probable that it has. But it's the kind of thing to set people talking and do both Lady Loudwater and Colonel Grey ...
— The Loudwater Mystery • Edgar Jepson
... primitive character belonging to relatively recent times, but executed before the advent of historic civilization to the regions where they are found. Ageneral resemblance among them suggests a common heritage of traditions from the hoariest antiquity, and throws light on the probable character of the transition from barbaric to ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin
... special night at the Beehive. A number of diamonds with some of their dust rubbed off—namely, a band of little boys, rescued from the streets and from a probable life of crime, were to be assembled there to say farewell to such friends as took an ...
— Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished - A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure • R.M. Ballantyne
... beginning. Writing in 1892, Miss Jane Barlow was not hopeful for the immediate future of English literature in Ireland;—it seemed to her "difficult to point out any quarter of the horizon as a probable source of rising light." Yet Mr. Yeats had published his "Wanderings of Oisin" three years before; Mr. Russell had already gathered about him a group of eager young writers; and Dr. Hyde was organizing the Gaelic League, to give back to Ireland her language and civilization, and translating ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt
... small party bombed a suspected saphead at—here followed the exact bearings of the crater on the large-scale map. Loud groans were heard, so it is probable that ...
— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay


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