probable outcome
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprobableandoutcome
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probable
adjective
uk/ˈprɒb.ə.bəl/us/ˈprɑː.bə.bəl/
likely to be true or likely ...
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outcome
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ˈaʊt.kʌm/us/ˈaʊt.kʌm/
a result or effect of an action, ...
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Aprobableoutcomeof this investigation is a new legislation on the prevention of malpractice and medical accidents.
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One final question needs to be answered as to theprobableoutcomeof this ongoing reanalysis.
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Specifically, both subject groups consistently chose the moreprobableoutcome.
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Theprobableoutcomeof allowing bad tendencies to run their course is disruption and adversity.
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The preferred measure of candidate support for the study of campaigns is one that provides a consistent daily account of theprobableoutcomeof the election.
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Rousseau was in actuality preparing for a new m'diation, which e he prophetically saw as theprobableoutcomeof the ongoing constitutional disputation.
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This seems to me to be theprobableoutcome.
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There is no need to apologise for taking some time very carefully to consider the possibilities and theprobableoutcomeof various courses of action.
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We said, however, that theprobableoutcomewould not be what they intended.
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No conclusions have yet been reached, and it is still too early to make any statement as to theprobableoutcome.
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In assessing theprobableoutcomeof our practical redeployment measures it would be unwise to draw too much on past history.
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But do not let us go ahead without fully taking account of theprobableoutcome, and setting the gains against the losses.
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We should leave aside the election and take a serious view of the possible andprobableoutcome, over the next 10 years, on three or four assumptions.
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The indications are that a single research council, with suitable divisions but with much stronger powers at the centre than the current advisory body enjoys, is aprobableoutcome.
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That is the mostprobableoutcome.
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Patients ' should be encouraged to make their preferences known ' on the basis of sound prognosis and the probable outcomes.
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The issues involve the probable outcomes of the secularisation of the culture.
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They will involve placing individuals in categories, allocating resources, determining intentions or probable outcomes.
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But as the numbers rise the pattern of the probable outcomes gets more clearly defined.
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