Synonym: likeliness. Similar words: likely, unlikely, and the like, like, unlike, likewise, feel like, something like. Meaning: ['laɪklɪhʊd] n. the probability of a specified outcome.
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121. Drugs such as anticoagulants, antacids, barbiturates, alcohol and tobacco may increase the likelihood of the condition developing.
122. Although this hip reduces the likelihood of resorption, early detection of problems is vital.
123. There will be great debate surrounding the engine and many questions will be raised that can not be answered except in terms of likelihood.
124. The likelihood that one will never own an automobile can not fail to have the opposite effect.
125. The region claims the situation should improve this year with new storm water tanks in Dunfermline reducing the likelihood of overflows.
126. The likelihood ratio test statistic shown above is a formalization of this.
127. However(http://sentencedict.com), individuals and often organisations have to make judgements based on their perceptions of likelihood and consequences.
128. The active, sensation-seeking child simply has a greater likelihood of such a pattern.
129. This sequence was selected to reduce the likelihood of standing stress waves in the body of the engine.
130. Armed with information like this, the likelihood is that governments will find further justification for managing the media in wartime.
131. I believe that there is a strong likelihood that markets will seek to test that resolve.
132. And there is a strong likelihood of losing ground financially rather than gaining it.
133. Once an argument is in progression the child may feel that there is an increased likelihood of the parent's giving in.
134. Due to the low pay offered the likelihood was that anyone with creative talent would be attracted to a better-paid job elsewhere.
135. The likelihood of this future scenario is further discussed in the final section of this chapter.
136. As the number of people involved increases, so does the likelihood of the fraud's detection.
137. There is some empirical support for the proposition that the likelihood of attack decreases with size.
138. In all likelihood they do poorly on tests and other measures of performance and suffer humiliation and self-concept-destroying consequences.
139. No drain was inserted in view of the likelihood of ascites developing in the postoperative period.
140. Preventive work spans these contrasting situations because child abuse cases are those where there is more likelihood of separation.
141. Custodial sentences and remands prevent immediate offending but increase the likelihood of later and more serious reoffending.
142. Keeler has been musing on the nature of weediness and the likelihood of it evolving among engineered crops.
143. Such questions cast serious doubts on the likelihood of to having no meaning in these uses.
144. In all likelihood, the racially polarized vote will reinforce Mississippi's negative image far beyond its borders.
145. The President asked for opinions as to the likelihood of criminal prosecution of Poindexter and North.
146. However, this tactic has been abandoned due to improved police surveillance and the greater likelihood of being caught.
147. Obviously, where the marketing concept prevails, the likelihood of serious conflict is reduced, and vice-versa. 8.
148. The likelihood of food riots this winter will increase as shortages spread.
149. An opportunity should never be judged by the size of the potential gains but by the likelihood of those gains.
150. There is little likelihood that cereals played a minor role in the economy.