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improbable

[im-prob-uh-buhl] / ɪmˈprɒb ə bəl /


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"Beating Chris Sutton over a full 380-game season is basically the equivalent of winning away at the Etihad: improbable, statistical chaos, and therefore deeply amusing."

From BBC • May 25, 2026

He wrote in his “The Fusion Conclusion” newsletter that many fusion experts “think that what TAE is trying to do is improbable if not impossible and have physics-informed calculations to back up their opinions.”

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Two months shy of his 35th birthday, the ultimate journeyman has emerged as a wildly improbable star.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

And though the film highlights the Braves’ improbable championship, it’s clear there isn’t necessarily an easy, happy ending to this story.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

The rhythmic sounds might be the recapitulation of something else—an earliest memory, a score for the transformation of inanimate, random matter in chaos into the improbable, ordered dance of living forms.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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