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  • Exemples de likely
    1. This makes them realize they're human and maybe makes them less likely to be insensitive to the people they have to come in contact with because if they act too much like bastards, sooner or later someone is going to pop them one.
    2. They may be near the back of the pack now, but one of them is likely to emerge to vie with Howard Dean, the cybergenic former governor of Vermont [ …]
    3. A check of the nightstands revealed large amounts of prescription medication in the decedent’s name,” the coroner’s notes said, according to TMZ.com. — The Herald Sun, ‘Dangerous drug mix’ likely killed Brittany, New York Post, December 23, 2009 5:27AM
    4. The agency said that the 67 pesticides were chosen because humans and animals are widely exposed to them, not because they are necessarily the most likely disruptors of endocrinal functions.
    5. Injuries [ … ] will likely keep fireballing prospect Phillippe Aumont from suiting up as well.
  • Exemples de likelier
    1. 2004: Nine percent says they’d be likelier to cheat on their partners if they could sleep with a celebrity. After all, starfucking doesn’t really count as cheating anyway. - Bernice Kanner, Are You Normal About Sex, Love, and Relationships?
    2. His parents — a restless, titanically self-involved father and a mother who cultivated her inner life in strict solitude — seem a much likelier source for his condition.
  • Exemples de likeliest
    1. Still, Saints looked the likeliest to make the breakthrough, and it came when Jonny Evans could only half-clear a long ball and Chaplow took full advantage.
  • Exemples de more likely
    1. To be clear, cars are more likely to kill nonbikers; we still live in a world ruled by the ruthless car.
    2. Over all, movers were more likely than nonmovers to be unemployed, renters, poor and black.
    3. Shoppers at supercenters are usually between the ages of 25 and 49, and more likely to live in the South or Midwest than on either coast.
    4. If, in order to save money, you never buy a parking ticket, you are more likely to get fined, so it's all swings and roundabouts really.
    5. A few iconoclasts insist that bulbs can reflower, and you may be proving them right, but it is more likely that you started with at least two bulbs similar in size.
    6. Local businesses are more likely to respend their profits in the community.
  • Exemples de most likely
    1. The agency said that the 67 pesticides were chosen because humans and animals are widely exposed to them, not because they are necessarily the most likely disruptors of endocrinal functions.
    2. The most likely explanation is that Cage imagined Peter as a fop of the first order, the type of ivory-tower Manhattanite whose exalted sense of privilege naturally leads to a hilariously affected manner of speech.
    3. Although the causes for regressive autism are most likely multifactoral, one possible co-factor — vaccination — stimulates the most intense debate.
    4. The rising wealth of the nation’s richest taxpayers will most likely intensify debate among tax and policy analysts about the equitability of the tax code, which analysts say favors the ultrawealthy.
    5. Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it.
    6. Cytoplasmic inheritance or dauermodification are considered the most likely explanations for this difference in photoperiod reaction.
    7. The most likely scenario for Europe isn't dhimmitude; it's a long period of tension, punctuated by spasms of violence, that makes the Continent a more unpleasant place without fundamentally transforming it.
    8. Joe-Bob and Nelly swore up and down that the thing that pushed their pick-up into the ditch wasn't a big brown bear, but a spectral ha'nt, most likely Joe-Bob's deceased ex-wife.
    9. There is no doubt that a MacIntel machine could supplant the Wintel platform. And most likely, the entire hungry Linux community could port all the x86 Linux code to the MacIntel OS within weeks, creating a huge flood of good products.
    10. The threat of some sort of development —— ranchettes and megamansions, most likely —— remained.
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