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- adjective
comparative form oflikely : morelikely
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Examples
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Now, if Republicans take the House, how much likelier is a deficit-reduction deal that increases revenues or cuts spending by at least $700 billion over the next 10 years, thus making up for the tax cuts?
Handicapping the deficit under divided government Ezra Klein 2010
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If Republicans take the House and the Senate, how much likelier is a full extension of the Bush tax cuts?
Handicapping the deficit under divided government Ezra Klein 2010
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If Republicans take the House, how much likelier is a full extension of the Bush tax cuts?
Handicapping the deficit under divided government Ezra Klein 2010
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Ter hear ye a-jowin ', a-body would think I had never shot nothin' likelier'n a yaller-hammer sence I been born.
Down the Ravine Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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Women are no likelier to remain faithful to the religion of their parents than men, college grads no more than high school dropouts, and so forth.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Even more alarmingly they said households where children were present were even likelier to experience hunger.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin And a Modern American Portrait of Physical Health and Hunger Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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FP&L may play a role, but the likelier theory, Michael, is that your network is trying to tell you something.
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How much likelier would an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia have been?
Alan Elsner: Lessons From Israel's Osirek Raid 30 Years Ago Alan Elsner 2011
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James Q. Wilson struggles, speculates and implies that we should thank: the Environmental Protection Agency for regulating lead, which in the blood of children makes them more likely to be aggressive and violent; casual coke users who are "probably less likely to commit serious crimes"; and the "legalization of abortions, which resulted in black children never being born into circumstances that would have made them likelier to become criminals."
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Even more alarmingly they said households where children were present were even likelier to experience hunger.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin And a Modern American Portrait of Physical Health and Hunger Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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