Likely
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9463 examples of Likely in a sentence
And likely, the harmonics of my voice as it went higher coupled with how loud I was singing recreated either the predatory call of an echolocating bat or a bird, and the spider did what it should.
You're not
likely
going to see the vultures at the crime scene.
Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more
likely
to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school.
Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they're much more
likely
to persevere when they fail, because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition.
Stanley Milgram from the '60s and '70s, the creator of the small-world experiments, which became later popularized as six degrees of separation, made the point that any two arbitrarily selected people were
likely
connected from between five to seven intermediary steps.
You are
likely
to be headed to the emergency room, and you want to get this right.
He became an effective altruist when he calculated that with the money that he was
likely
to earn throughout his career, an academic career, he could give enough to cure 80,000 people of blindness in developing countries and still have enough left for a perfectly adequate standard of living.
And learning is most
likely
a self-organizing system.
Like 99 percent of all the animals that have once lived, they go extinct,
likely
due to a warming climate and fast-encroaching dense forests that are migrating north, and also, as the late, great Paul Martin once put it, probably Pleistocene overkill, so the large game hunters that took them down.
For example, in 1960 they were both very
likely
to have full-time jobs, working at least 40 hours a week.
First, if it's too dramatic, too emotional, too clickbait, then it's very
likely
that it isn't true.
Cyber espionage is spiriting away advanced designs to parts unknown, and in that environment, it is very
likely
that a successful drone design will be knocked off in contract factories, proliferate in the gray market.
But if we didn't play you the cue during the sleep, for example, a guitar, you'd be less
likely
to remember that guitar when you woke up.
Usually the one that's taking up more space, that's more boastful, definitely the aggressor, most
likely
the winner of the fight.
It's more
likely
too much glucose: blood sugar.
And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're
likely
to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
And I realized that the whole empire was
likely
to come crashing down unless I chipped in a chip.
People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful were no more
likely
to die.
If you're poor, you're more
likely
to get malaria.
If you're poor, you're more
likely
to live in rudimentary housing on marginal land that's poorly drained.
You're less
likely
to have door screens or window screens.
You're less
likely
to have electricity and all the indoor activities that electricity makes possible, so you're outside more.
A child in Malawi, for example, she might have 12 episodes of malaria before the age of two, but if she survives, she'll continue to get malaria throughout her life, but she's much less
likely
to die of it.
And if we asked the leading "smashed" question, the witnesses told us the cars were going faster, and moreover, that leading "smashed" question caused people to be more
likely
to tell us that they saw broken glass in the accident scene when there wasn't any broken glass at all.
If your per capita income is between 2,000 and 4,000 dollars per year, then you're
likely
to only get 33 years of democracy.
But it also says that as China moves toward being the largest economy in the world, something that is expected to happen by experts in 2016, that this schism between the political and economic ideologies of the West and the rest is
likely
to widen.
If you lived in a more walkable neighborhood, you were 35 percent
likely
to be overweight.
If you lived in a less walkable neighborhood, you were 60 percent
likely
to be overweight.
Which group do you think was more
likely
to judge harshly our subject?
Do you think that you would be equally
likely
to call either candidate for an interview?
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