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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an implausible or dubious manner.

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  • adverb In an implausible or dubious manner.

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  • adverb not easy to believe

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Examples

  • More AIG Fires Back Over Greenberg Suit Ex-Gen Re Executive Is Sentenced Bernanke Frustrated Over AIG Rescue In a statement, SICO said AIG "implausibly" asserts that in 1970 it established a trust of shares worth more than $100 million at the time, but the trust was never put in writing and never included on its balance sheet.

    Judge Rejects Bid To Dismiss AIG Claim In Starr Case 2009

  • In its statement, SICO said AIG "implausibly" asserts that in 1970 it established a trust of shares worth more than $100 million at the time, but the trust was never put in writing and never included on its balance sheet.

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  • In a passage like this, DeShell is forced to use his narrator to present information so transparently and so implausibly (no one really says such things to oneself) that narrative continuity is broken.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • Her journey to an implausibly remote and impenetrable part of Wales, presided over by a strange and dangerous cult, is pacey and exhilarating enough, if a tad formulaic.

    Crime roundup – reviews 2011

  • This estimate sounds implausibly high, but Mr. Hamm has a lifelong habit of proving skeptics wrong.

    How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia Stephen Moore 2011

  • David Frum suggests, not implausibly, that this cosmetic downgrading of India is a prelude to more substantive slights:

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  • The Heritage Foundation's Brian Riedl points out Mr. Obama's fiscal 2012 budget conjured up $700 billion in defense savings "by comparing the long-planned drawdown of Iraq and Afghanistan spending against a baseline that implausibly assumes those war costs would continue forever."

    The GOP Will Benefit From the Budget Debate Karl Rove 2011

  • David Frum suggests, not implausibly, that this cosmetic downgrading of India is a prelude to more substantive slights:

    Asia 2010

  • Both pieces implausibly (and inaccurately, as it turned out) argued that Mahalo was succeeding.

    Reality Check: Blodget’s Latest Calacanis Infomercial | Managing Greatness 2009

  • Harold's view of Wheeler is rather different: his metamorphosis from implausibly glamorous and powerful friend to wife-stealer means Harold's mission is one of revenge rather than reunion, a fact he is at pains, throughout, to conceal from Rose.

    The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge – review 2011

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