"On the other hand, it's entirely possible, and I think plausible, that what you're seeing in India is evidence of mixture of ancient South Asian ancestors with local Denisovans," that is, an entirely separate mating event than the one that led to Denisovan ancestry in Oceania, Reich says.
"I thought it plausible that it was American evangelicals," said Mahmoud Ayoub, a professor of Islamic studies and comparative religion at Temple University.
American-designed reactors, including the ones at Fukushima, were built to withstand something called a "design basis" accident, usually the worst case that engineers thought was plausible.
The moving images on the camera monitor offered, I thought, a plausible depiction of one of the drawbacks of life in the Old West — an invasive urological procedure conducted without benefit of anesthesia.
Gaver's taxonomy is well thought out, plausible, and fairly comprehensive, in that it includes a wide range of naturally occurring sounds.
"That woman, that woman you don't think is plausible, that woman's my mother, and I can tell you she was plausible enough to me in real life, when she was alive".
