Sentence examples for plausible had from inspiring English sources
The famous "progressive coalition" might have been politically plausible had it made arithmetic sense.
Many say it was the Philippines that provided the inspiration for Alex Garland's The Beach (he lived and travelled there), and the plot - following a secret map to a hidden island paradise - would be more plausible had it been set here rather than comparatively overrun Thailand.
So the hypothesis, though plausible, has not been proved.
So "something plausible has to go" (DeRose 1995, 2; emphasis added).
The stochastic resonance mechanism, while physiologically plausible, has not yet received empirical verification.
The author's statement that 'a positive association between processed meat consumption and risk of pancreatic cancer is biologically plausible', has not been demonstrated.
A structure for the dimeric end-member of the dotted line in Fig. 5 ▸ [equation (16)] that is crystal-chemically plausible has been developed in §5.2.2.
Simon Brooker, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said it was very plausible Richard III had roundworm.
The advantages of plausible values have been illustrated by comparing the use of maximum likelihood estimates and plausible values (PV) for estimating a range of population statistics.
But the individual parts are not only plausible but have some real backup.
They matter because, as here, a plausible "we" has to be based on the inclusion of every type of individual.
