Sentence examples for less implausible from inspiring English sources

That is less implausible than it sounds.

Dr. White believes that advances he and others have made render warp speed less implausible.

Less implausible was that the Stasi had investigated the mother, and that her addiction and pilferage had come to light.

Five years ago, James Shapiro wrote "A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599," a meticulous study that rendered a slice of the standard history less implausible.

But the notion that Europeans and Americans may increasingly be rivals rather than partners seems less implausible than it once did.

Now that it has been reframed as a mechanism for creating new schools, the fact that it has worked elsewhere makes it seem less implausible.

Then for others still, it was some slightly-less-implausible concession like a one-year delay of the individual mandate; for others, it was something actually plausible like the delay of the medical device tax or the Vitter Amendment; for others (the Marlin Stutzman caucus, if you will), it was just some kind of concession, some kind of scalp to hold up to their constituents.

Since one unit in EyeLink's uncalibrated data output is smaller than 0.01° of eye rotation, being able to report differences in 0.25 square units or less seems implausible.

Rather, this evidence was found unconvincing because it was not sufficient to overcome prior plausibility considerations that made the drift hypothesis extremely implausible — much less plausible than the contraction hypothesis.

A more robust 2013 study by Godefroit et al. (using a dataset of 1,500 characters scored for 358 taxa) found that troodontids were possibly more closely related to birds than to dromaeosaurids; forcing troodontids to remain in a monophyletic Deinonychosauria required four extra steps in the analysis, making this result less likely but not implausible.

In this simulation study, truncating imputed values for the continuous covariates to within the plausible range produced less bias than allowing implausible values.