plausible answer
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plausible
adjective
uk/ˈplɔː.zə.bəl/us/ˈplɑː.zə.bəl/
seeming likely to be true, or able to ...
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answer
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑːn.sər/us/ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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Aplausibleansweris this : we should examine the relationship of the parts to, and their efficiency in, the achievement of a purpose.
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A moreplausibleansweris that periodicity relates to the ways the person has of interacting with their environment and its demands.
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Oneplausibleansweris the need to be on one's feet all day, for instance to forage or travel.
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My focus is on only one important aspect of the problem of justification: providing aplausibleanswerto the parochialism objection.
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To limit the subjectivity, our approach relies on the judges' ability to interpret aplausibleanswer with reference to the viewpoint of the summary author.
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It doesn't answer the question, but it does go some way toward showing us what aplausibleanswermust look like.
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Aplausibleansweris: other things being equal, under conditions in which the human rights of women are systematically violated.
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Aplausibleansweris that scanning results are obtained when the subject thinks that imagining scanning a display is part of the task at hand.
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To reach aplausibleanswerto this question requires first a convincing research method.
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It may not be possible to provide a definitive answer to this question, but what is sought is a persuasive and, it is hoped,plausibleanswer.
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Would that be aplausibleanswerto the jurisprudential question of what it is to be a law (over and above falling under the extension of "law" in its count-occurrences)?
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There are no panaceas, but a moreplausibleansweris to consider different voting systems.
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I know that he will give us an honest and not merely aplausibleanswerto the claims which we have made.
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There is no other acceptable orplausibleanswer.
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Common sense seems to be aplausibleanswerto functional fixedness.
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Although there are many plausible answers, we argue that they boil down to one: the politics of population change.
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I would like to suggest two plausible answers to this question.
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Temkin argues that there seem to be three plausible answers.
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Good and plausible answers will have to be given to them.
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