probable explanation

collocation in English

meaningsofprobableandexplanation

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probable
adjective
uk
/ˈprɒb.ə.bəl/us
/ˈprɑː.bə.bəl/
likely to be true or likely ...
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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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(Definition ofprobableandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We believe the mostprobableexplanationrests with intestinal permeability and a mucosal barrier.
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Oneprobableexplanationis that the indoor spas have no air compressors and therefore fewer aerosols.
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A moreprobableexplanationmay be that this could reflect a specificity problem with the assay when testing samples from the very young.
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Aprobableexplanationfor the decrease in dopamine content is an inhibitory effect of melatonin on dopamine synthesis.
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Faecal contamination of the salad at source was the mostprobableexplanationfor the diversity of viruses detected and characterized.
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The mostprobableexplanationis total consumption of propagules and seedlings by herbivores.
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Now suppose, as before, that some hypothesis embodying the natural attributes involved in theism is the mostprobableexplanationof order.
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Oneprobableexplanationis that an expanding labour market made it easier for children of those in the later cohort to have households of their own.
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Anotherprobableexplanationis that old men, to a much higher degree than women, were self-supporting and therefore not dependent on relatives to the same extent.
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Oneprobableexplanationis that patient choice is most commonly exercised in relation to orthopaedics, where the waiting lists have been quite lengthy in some counties.
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The mostprobableexplanationfor the present findings is the effect of psychotropic drugs, most of which have antidorpaminergic or anticholinergic properties and may affect the cerebral blood flow response.
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Theprobableexplanationfor this is that as the paragraph size decreases, the bigram estimates of the 'true frequency vector' become very unreliable, and fluctuate wildly.
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I have no information as to the last part of the question, but theprobableexplanationis that none have been sent.
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There is oneprobableexplanationfor all this.
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I think that there is a far more satisfactory and far moreprobableexplanation.
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I think that that is the mostprobableexplanationof the subsection.
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A moreprobableexplanationcan be found in the fact that the latter article is said to be prepared at a cost much lower than that of the former.
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The mostprobableexplanationis this: the authorities seem to have thought that private citizens, being in any case caught in the trap, would be obliged to adapt themselves.
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