possible explanation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpossibleandexplanation
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possible
adjective
uk/ˈpɒs.ə.bəl/us/ˈpɑː.sə.bəl/
able to be done or achieved, or able ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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Onepossibleexplanationfor the differing results may have to do with the fact that we were requesting summary instead of individual patient data.
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Given a positive growth rate, emigration remains apossibleexplanationof a decreasing population.
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Anotherpossibleexplanationis that the particular stimuli used in this study allowed children to produce the reversed order.
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I suggest that apossibleexplanationmay emerge from an apparently unlikely source: the study of language evolution.
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Anotherpossibleexplanationis that a specific comorbidity pattern accounted for the facilitating effect on diagnosing depression in patients with concomitant chronic somatic disease.
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The effects of social networks on citation are, then, a secondpossibleexplanationfor the differential rates at which men and women cite women.
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Apossibleexplanationis that the central government compensates the counties for secondary schools too highly and that this generates a spillover effect to healthcare.
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Before considering apossibleexplanationfor the present findings, we briefly survey explanatory schemes that are entertained for inhibition or facilitation of return.
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Onepossibleexplanationfor this, is that the instrument used is biased to normative, usually pleasant involvement in sensory and imaginative experiences.
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Apossibleexplanationfor this negative effect may have to do with the perceptions of bank lenders about the safety of their loans.
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Apossibleexplanationf or this is that both the patients and their families need time to comprehend the situation and to make arrangements.
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Onepossibleexplanationmight lie in the constitutional arrangements of the three countries, as the institutionalists would have it.
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Anotherpossibleexplanationis that they are employing the same second messenger pathways such that there is heterologous desensitization.
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Onepossibleexplanationfor this discrepancy is synergistic epistasis among the fitness effects of deleterious mutations.
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Exposure through professional experience is apossibleexplanationfor these findings, but it cannot account for the inconsistent estimations by parents.
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This is a viable argument, of course, but not the onlypossibleexplanation, particularly in light of the hidden tune's multiple presentations.
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Indeed, these regions provide apossibleexplanationfor a 'missing pulse phenomenon' occasionally seen in the laboratory.
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A change in admission practices for influenza and pneumonia represents a thirdpossibleexplanation.
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Onepossibleexplanationis that readers remembered that something was doubled in these words.
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Apossibleexplanationmay be that the contaminated water reached different households at different times, probably reflecting low contamination levels in the water.
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