Sentence examples for least likely explanation from inspiring English sources

"The least likely explanation is that the economy is reversing trends," Mr. Shepherdson said.

The simplest, but least likely, explanation was that the stragglers formed much later than their neighbors.

Murder seems the least likely explanation -- until another member of the same group drops dead.

But the least likely explanation is that teachers who know more math and literature are better able to tell what they know to 10-year-olds.

During cross-examination, Eichmann, characteristically, chose the most complicated and least likely explanation: Rademacher had needed the support of the Head Office for Reich Security for his own stand on the matter, and had therefore forged the document.

He said that the least likely explanation was that all the celebrities had weak passwords allowing the hacker simply to guess them and log in.

There are at least two likely explanations for our observations.

That, at least, seems the most likely explanation of the conspiracy episode.

The authors of the study suggest a more likely explanation: at least some senators must have been trading "based on information that is unavailable to the public" — in other words, they were engaged in some form of insider trading.

For example, replacement ala29VAL improves relative affinity for REs containing A4; in previously published ancestral X-ray crystal structures, the hydrophobic side chain of VAL29 packs against the hydrophobic methyl groups that are unique to the complementary T at position 4 in the RE, providing a likely explanation, at least in part, for this effect (McKeown et al., 2014).

Of these, the climate change explanation is least likely, given the lack of evidence for unprecedented aridity between 60 and 40 ka, and the successful adaptation of Australian ecosystems to 2.5 Ma of similar changes.