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plausible

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Seeming reasonable or believable, though not established as true.

She offered a plausible explanation for the discrepancy.

Dictionary practice example.

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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