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• a  apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful
  a plausible excuse
• s  given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments
  a plausible liar

• All these explanations seem plausible, and so does Karl Lagerfeld's theory of why, this time around, the Chanel suit met such phenomenal success.
• But it does have enough of a melodramatic pulse to keep you engaged in its story and, better than that, it is full of plausible characters who are capable of surprising and .
• True, the onetime ornithologist and the former physicist had created a plausible model for the structure of DNA that morning.

• implausible

News & Articles

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• Grim, Violent Man of Steel Sells Superman's Soul for Spectacle
  The overwhelming impression I get from Man of Steel is that someone, somewhere along the line, thought that the core concept of Superman and every piece of his story needed to be souped up: made edgier, darker, grittier, more violent, more explosive. Every change in Man of Steel serves that end rather than the story, or even a plausible reboot of the character and continuity.                
  June 13, 2013 - Wired News
• College Football's 25 Coolest Urban Legends
  Most individuals probably have a slightly different opinion on what exactly an urban legend is, but one thing is certain: urban legends have been around college football for well over 100 years and there are plenty to speak of. According to About.com , "an urban legend is an apocryphal, secondhand story, alleged to be true and just plausible enough to be believed, about some horrific ...
  June 13, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• J. Cole On His Hoop Dreams, And Why The World Won't Allow LeBron To Be As Great As MJ
  It’s been said that every rapper wants to be a baller and every baller wants to be a rapper. Jermaine Lamarr Cole—you know him as J. Cole—is one of the few who had a plausible future in both trades.
  June 12, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

Quotes

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• Jean-Claude Trichet in International Herald Tribune
  ...the ECB probably will leave rates unchanged when its governing council meets Thursday, Jean-Claude Trichet, the bank's president, said earlier this month that "liquidity in the euro area is ample by all plausible measures" and...
• Grover Norquist in ABC News
  Grover Norquist, a leading conservative and president of Americans for Tax Reform, called Palin "one of five or six people who is a plausible candidate for president in 2012," along with familiar names like Mitt Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and...
• Efraim Zuroff in ABC News
  There's no body, no corpse, no DNA, no grave - we can't sign off on a story like this because of some semi-plausible explanation,Zuroff told the AP in a telephone interview from Jerusalem. "Keep in mind these people have a vested...