improbable event

collocation in English

meaningsofimprobableandevent

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improbable
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈprɒb.ə.bəl/us
/ɪmˈprɑː.bə.bəl/
not likely to happen or ...
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event
noun[C]
uk
/ɪˈvent/us
/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofimprobableandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the extremelyimprobableeventof proving necessary, evacuation and other measures would be extended to a wider area around the site.
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The formulation there said that if there is some basis for contrasting the particularimprobableevent with all the alternatives, taken together, then explanation will be called for.
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In the extremelyimprobableeventof proving necessary, evacuation and other measures would be extended to a wider area around the site.
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The benefit of this agreement will continue for our successors in theimprobableeventof our successors not being ourselves.
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That would be a most improbable action on my part and a mostimprobableevent.
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But let us suppose that thatimprobableeventdid occur.
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That is a highlyimprobableevent.
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Even in theimprobableeventof war the civil part is of a great deal more importance than the military part because of the resources that it builds up.
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An extreme downside risk is a highlyimprobableeventthat would have catastrophic consequences if it occurred.
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It would, however, be an astronomicallyimprobableeventif a macroscopic amount of gas that originally filled a container evenly spontaneously shrunk to occupy only half the container.
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I will argue later that under several historiographic dispensations national style effects can occur, but as improbable events of limited impact.
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He shows no familiarity with the extensive literature on the problem of miracles, methodological naturalism, and testimony to improbable events.
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It is frequently shown that strangely improbable events happen around the three of them, and especially so when more than one is gathered.
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Outcomes would become stranger as one approaches a forbidden act, as the universe must favor improbable events to prevent impossible ones.
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The psychophysics of chance induce overweighting of sure things and of improbable events, relative to events of moderate probability.
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The character is depicted within stories as performing a number of improbable events.
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Institutions would be encouraged to use at least five scenarios reflecting improbable events, and especially those considered impossible by management, but no standards apply yet to extreme scenarios.
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