unlikely source
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunlikelyandsource
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unlikely
adjective
uk/ʌnˈlaɪ.kli/us/ʌnˈlaɪ.kli/
not probable or likely ...
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofunlikelyandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofunlikely source
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Now however an excellent account has appeared from anunlikelysource.
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A second example comes from a moreunlikelysource.
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I suggest that a possible explanation may emerge from an apparentlyunlikelysource: the study of language evolution.
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Furthermore, comparison of participants and the eligible population show that sample attrition is anunlikelysourceof confounding in this investigation.
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The former seems anunlikelysourceof the difference between on- and off-center cells.
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Support for this view came from anunlikelysourcethree days ago.
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More interestingly, there is another potential source of challenge to the proposed legislation from anunlikelysource— children themselves.
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I was glad to get support from a veryunlikelysourcehere.
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I therefore sought anunlikelysourcein support of this view.
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It is based on common sense and would reduce the risks faced by young children from a mostunlikelysource—chocolate.
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Gist-based similarity has also been shown to occur in circumstances in which implicit associative responses are anunlikelysourceof misattribution.
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Furniture in coromandel is so expensive and so well looked after that even recycling it is anunlikelysource.
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However, the fact that actors did not start wishing each other to break a leg until the 1920s (more than 50 years later) makes this anunlikelysource.
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There has been a great deal of criticism of our spending plans, including some wild and wholly inaccurate accusations, from unlikely sources.
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Has there been some collusion between those two unlikely sources?
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That unity has been reflected in the co-operation of some unlikely sources, and it will he essential if we are to take the next necessary steps.
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