in all likelihood

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in all likelihood - with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war"

belike, in all probability, likely, probably

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Bayesian
belike
component life
in all probability
likelihood

Likeliness
odds
probability
probably

One would have thought that nothing could be simpler than for him, a man of good family, rather rich than poor, and thirty-two years old, to make the young Princess Shtcherbatskaya an offer of marriage; in all likelihood he would at once have been looked upon as a good match.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by some one across the lawn: but then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world.

Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context

In that case, so liable as every body was to meet every body in Bath, Lady Russell would in all likelihood see him somewhere.

Persuasion by Austen, Jane View in context

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