probable
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- n an applicant likely to be chosen
- a likely but not certain to be or become true or real
he foresaw a probable loss - s apparently destined
the probable consequences of going ahead with the scheme
- But he has also attracted controversy: a federal judge named Richardson last month as a probable source of leaks to the press about Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, who admitted .
- It is probable he will still be described as a pesky European who is more than slightly anti-American, but I have a feeling Jan Egeland doesn't worry too much about things like that.
- But the issue of whether HQ personnel deliberately undercut the probable cause can be sidestepped at this point because the Directive does not require probable cause.