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Seeming reasonable or believable, though not established as true.

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plausible

She offered a plausible explanation for the discrepancy.
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One student's explanation remained nebulous: the new page supposedly worked because it had a more natural flow, but he could not identify what that phrase described. Leila offered a more plausible possibility, suggesting that the larger separation between titles might have helped readers distinguish entries.
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