Look up improbable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Improbable may refer to: Improbable (company), a British company founded in 2012 Improbable (novel)...

Improbable Worlds Limited, commonly known as Improbable, is a British technology company headquartered in London, England. It makes metaverse infrastructure...

"Improbable Cause" is the 66th episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 20th episode of the third season. It is the first half...

Improbable is an English theatre company founded in 1996 by Lee Simpson, Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch (artistic directors) and producer Nick Sweeting...

Each episode of the cartoon series included a short segment "Peabody's Improbable History" in which the Wayback Machine was used by the segment's main characters...

Improbable is a 2005 science fiction thriller novel by Adam Fawer, about a gambler who gains the power to predict the future. It was awarded the 2006 International...

"Improbable" is the thirteenth episode of the ninth season and the 195th episode overall of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode...

and Friends, produced by Jay Ward. Peabody appears in the "Peabody's Improbable History" segments created by Ted Key, and he was voiced by Bill Scott...

produced by DreamWorks Animation and based on characters from the "Peabody's Improbable History" segments of the animated television series Rocky & Friends. It...

Disappear" music video, an MTV Movie & TV Awards parody called "Mission Improbable", an alternate title sequence, DVD-ROM and other bonus materials. The...

The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) is a bimonthly magazine devoted to scientific humor, in the form of a satirical take on the standard academic journal...

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme...

Improbable (February 11, 2016 – March 16, 2024) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the 2020 Champion Older Dirt Male after winning...

Improbably Poppy is a six-episode web series starring American singer Poppy. It premiered exclusively on the streaming platform Veeps on October 11, 2024...

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A statistically improbable phrase (SIP) is a phrase or set of words that occurs more frequently in a document (or collection of documents) than in some...

Bullwinkle from the 1960s. In a segment of the cartoon entitled "Peabody's Improbable History", the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman use the "Wayback Machine"...

include "Dudley Do-Right" (a parody of old-time melodrama), "Peabody's Improbable History" (a dog named Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman traveling through...

or belief that humans may associate with experiencing improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative events. Philosophical naturalism,...

of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 24 September 2024. "In Middle East, once improbable ententes set new tone". Reuters. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2024...

1988) is a British Indian businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of Improbable. Narula was born in April 1988, in Delhi, India, before his family moved...

Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book’s central metaphor describes complex adaptations, which evolve gradually...

of pseudoscience. Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded in 10 categories each year,...

time it was struck to the time it crossed the goal line, and the Most Improbable Comeback award is meant for the team that, based on calculations performed...

very poor", while Beekes considers a connection to Semitic languages improbable. Most major world languages use words derived from Eurṓpē or Europa to...

Colquhoun, David (12 March 2007). "HRH 'meddling in politics'". DC's Improbable Science. Archived from the original on 15 November 2010. Retrieved 6 November...

26th La Liga title. However, the La Liga title was overshadowed by an improbable Champions League exit to Liverpool in the semi-finals, with Barça losing...

and Won the Cup", the lyrics of which describe a series of bizarre and improbable occurrences on the hypothetical day when Chelsea finally won a trophy...

Muhammad's condition in these instances are likely genuine, as they are improbable to have been concocted by later Muslims. Shortly after Waraqa's death...

Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation is a 2014 travel book by epidemiologist and former journalist Elizabeth Pisani. It follows her travels...

was never on the island". Alan Dershowitz argued Giuffre's story was improbable, as the secret service would not allow Maxwell, "then a novice helicopter...

Founding of Australia (also published as A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia, The Commonwealth of Thieves: The birth of Australia)...

in Ithaca, and according to literary critic Hugh Kenner, achieves "the improbable feat of raising to poetry all the clutter of footling information that...

deaths were caused by accidental erotic asphyxia, Stein called this highly improbable. Jeffrey Rignall testified for the defense on February 21. Rignall wept...

"Twinkie defense" is a derisive label for an improbable legal defense. It is not a recognized legal defense in jurisprudence, but a catch-all term coined...

behavior and writings. He became wealthy through marriage and a series of improbably successful investments and spent his fortune lavishly. Though barely educated...

Retrieved 19 December 2024. Marchese, David (16 September 2016). "AC/DC Has Improbably Become the Most Poignant Story in Rock". Vulture. Archived from the original...

States, and Australia. McDermott was a co-founder of the theatre company Improbable in 1996. McDermott was born in Manchester, England. His screen debut was...

evil tries to show that, given the existence of evil in the world, it is improbable that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and a wholly good God. Most philosophers...

The Keys to the Kingdom is a fantasy-adventure book series written by Garth Nix, comprising seven books published between 2003 and 2010. The series chronicles...

"awkwardly directed, with some clumsy stunt action and a plethora of improbable horse falls". A problematic production in that Kubrick wanted to shoot...

Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America is a 2009 non-fiction book by Rich Benjamin. In May 2010, Benjamin briefly...

think". Commenting on the 2006 awards, Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsor of the awards, said that "[t]he prizes are intended...

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Skyral, a defence modelling and simulation company which was spun out of Improbable in 2023 following its acquisition by NOIA Capital and Kingsway. He serves...

The 2000 season was the Green Bay Packers' 80th in the National Football League (NFL) and their 82nd overall. It was the first season for which Mike Sherman...

coupled with random variation, creates complexity. In Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), he explores how evolution gradually creates complex adaptations...

"totally dependent on other people", with signs reminiscent of autism. It is improbable that Wilson was born partially deaf as such defects generally manifest...

Improbable Fables, or a Journey to the Center of the Earth (Russian: Невероятные небылицы или Путешествие к средоточию Земли) is an 1825 fantastic satirical...

Culture: A Guide. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-35505-9. Reid, Jan (2004). The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Edition. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70197-7...

name, which the others did not know while he was telling the story. In "Improbable Cause", Garak's former mentor Enabran Tain plainly accuses him of betraying...

The Huffington Post. Shepard, Steven (March 28, 2016). "Bernie's math: Improbable, not impossible". Politico. Seitz-Wald, Alex (April 11, 2016). "New York's...

produces extreme anxiety in Principal Skinner, who offers increasingly improbable excuses for the problems. As a running gag, despite his antipathy towards...

1080/14747731.2021.1991660. Retrieved October 2, 2025. Ratskoff, Ben (2020). "'Improbable Spectacles': White Supremacy, Christian Hegemony, and the Dark Side of...

philosophers, such as Epicurus, have argued that it is impossible, or at least improbable, for a deity to exhibit such a property alongside omniscience and omnipotence...

Retrieved 3 December 2022. Menon, Suresh (25 October 2022). "From the improbable to the inevitable — the Kohli method". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved...

Adam Fawer (born 1970 in New York City) is an American novelist. Improbable, his first novel, has been translated into eighteen languages and won the 2006...

American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food is a 2012 non-fiction book by Andrew F. Smith, published by the University of California Press....

David E., Sanger; Haberman, Maggie (12 October 2016). "Donald Trump Finds Improbable Ally in WikiLeaks". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 19 October...

with over 931 murders, though historians have disputed this figure as improbable and he only confessed to having personally strangled 125 victims. By the...

Retrieved June 9, 2026. "'Space Jam': The story behind Michael Jordan's improbable victory". EW.com. Archived from the original on December 31, 2025. Retrieved...

invited Stiller to make another short film, and he developed Mission: Improbable, a spoof of Tom Cruise's role in Mission: Impossible II and other films...

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (Russian: Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России, translit. Neveroyatnye Priklyucheniya Italyantsev...

sexual pairings and recombinations of characters as they move through improbable plots and slamming doors. Georges Feydeau plays, presented in Paris in...

did actually hang over all the Kennedys." Skeptics argue that it is not improbable for a large extended family to experience similar events over the course...

the Pac-12 and fourth in the nation. Plum also led the Huskies on an improbable NCAA Tournament run, highlighted by their first Final Four appearance...

age range of the usual thriller cast. Many recent action pictures have improbably young actors cast as key roles or sidekicks, but by skewing older, Alien...

organisms on Earth, and subsequently human intelligence, required an improbable combination of astrophysical and geological events and circumstances....

become a detective himself, despite all of his cases being botched by improbable events. Soap is demoted back to detective and once again assigned to the...

045. S2CID 9077554. "The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize Winners" (PDF). Annals of Improbable Research. 16 (6): 10–13. 2010. Udhayanan, Prateksha; Mishra, Swasti; Rao...

the attributions, although held in wide belief, are no more than an "improbable ... legend". On the morning of 19 May, Kingston wrote: This morning she...

Rigden, Claire (10 April 2024). "Swift Street: It's been an improbable rise to the top for the Perth-raised actor Tanzyn Crawford". The West...

mathematician and scientific editor. He is the editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research and the master of ceremonies at the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration...

of a young Melqart (often associated with Herakles), although this is improbable. It is more likely that it simply depicts the god himself. The reverse...

Kraljevo, Historical Archive Kraljevo. Pavlowitch, Stevan K. (1988). The improbable survivor: Yugoslavia and its problems, 1918–1988. (online free to borrow)...

results. Analyses by media sources found the CNE results statistically improbable and lacking in credibility. Protests occurred across the country and internationally...

House. ISBN 978-0525511953. Davies, Kevin Jon, ed. (2023). 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams. Unbound. ISBN 9781800182684. List of atheists...

stunt was ultimately scrapped as it was determined to be logistically improbable. They also tried to do a stunt with Dave England's one testicle, by wanting...

as model for their homeland". The Times of Israel. They looked to an improbable model for building an independent homeland: Israel and the Zionist movement...

infrastructure and the canyon's geography made irrigating the dry surrounding area improbable at best. To address this issue in 1900, I. B. Perrine founded the Twin...

incident he had experienced while vacationing on Kauai. The "long day of improbable and grotesque mischief" prompted him never to take vacations again in...

the prosecution's theory of the events the night Till was murdered was improbable, and said the jury's "forefathers would turn over in their graves" if...

on the series began by May 2022 in New Jersey under the working title Improbable Valentine. Filming locations included Hoboken, Jersey City, and New York...

results. Analyses by media sources found the CNE results statistically improbable and lacking in credibility. Parallel vote tabulation confirmed the win...

June 2013. Liz Clarke (7 April 2004). "Sharapova Wins Wimbledon After Improbable Journey". The Washington Post. Retrieved 20 June 2010. Adrian Warner (7...

randomly sampled from the set of all humans who will ever live, it is improbable that one would be at the extreme beginning. This implies that the total...

permanent and independent of any future medical advances, however distant or improbable. Because detailed reading or restoration of information-storing brain...

the beauty of Baldwin's sentences and the cool of his tone, something improbable, too, this meeting of Henry James, the Bible, and Harlem." One of Baldwin's...

2014). "Design of Surface-to-Air Missile Systems Makes Accidents Far from Improbable". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 12 March 2020. Rosen, Armin (18 July...

The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories was an anthology of fantasy stories edited by Ray Bradbury and published in 1956. Many of the stories...

Chicago Daily Tribune, H. L. Mencken judged the work's plot to be highly improbable, although he praised the writing as elegant and the "careful and brilliant...

Retrieved 16 November 2011. "The 1998 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony". Annals of Improbable Research. 27 November 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2013. "PAKISTANI POLITICIANS'...

Taleb, thinkers who came before him who dealt with the notion of the improbable (such as Hume, Mill, and Popper) focused on the problem of induction in...

Chowdhury 2015, p. 548. Klimek, Chris (6 November 2015). "The Messy, Improbable History of SPECTRE". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 22 August...

20, 2013 Abrams, Jonathan (April 21, 2011) "The Trainer Behind Those Improbable Plays" The New York Times. Retrieved January 20, 2013 "Carmelo Anthony...

television series of the same name, and also the creator of the Peabody's Improbable History animated segments. Born in Fresno, California, Key was the son...

figure. In his 2016 analysis Sowa dismissed the 17,000 figure as "entirely improbable" and suggested that its longevity and popularity resulted from manipulation...

juxtaposition of contrasts, sudden surprises in spoken dialogue and action and improbable and deliberate anachronisms. During an interview with Stephen Chow for...

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore is a music history book by Albert Mudrian, the founding editor-in-chief of Decibel, a...

League, they were not favoured to win that year's edition, and their improbable run was widely considered a surprise. After a highly successful 2021–22...

not shy about his accomplishments. But he made room in that theatrical, improbable, outsized life for others." Andrew O'Hehir of Salon wrote that "He's up...

edu. Retrieved September 20, 2025. "Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake". Improbable.com. Archived from the original on July 30, 2010. Retrieved July 31, 2010...

Arabs compared with poetry, and the tales were dismissed as khurafa (improbable fantasies fit only for entertaining women and children). According to...

medical issues. Hackett has said "I would say it's possible, but highly improbable. I've always been open to it. I'm not the guy who says no." Gabriel addressed...

24, 2025. Seal, Mark (November 3, 2022). "Inventing Ivana Trump: Her Improbable Rise and Tragic Death". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on November...

Improbable Fiction is a 2005 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is about a writers' circle, on the night the chairman, Arnold, seems to wander...

American singer‑songwriter Roger Miller. The lyrics list a series of improbable or impossible activities and end with a refrain that contrasts those impossibilities...

Boggs and senators John Cooper and Richard Russell—found the theory "improbable"; their qualms were not mentioned in the final report. Conspiracy theorists...

is a 1977 documentary film produced and directed by Howard Smith about improbable inventions, and uses old newsreel footage about these inventions. Early...

lushness of the cinematography, with its beautiful people, landscapes, improbable sculptures, impractical machines and galaxy of light and dust, is as voluptuous...

companions end up sharing a room in a convent, where Frank becomes the improbable focus of attention. Voice-over: Patty Croker 80 14 "Secret Relations"...

"freakish". Concert critics have pointed out that "she'll let loose with an improbably long note that runs through more octaves than you knew existed". When...

Attributing events to improbable causes...

commenting, "Still, for all its limitations, Maleficent manages to be improbably entertaining to watch, due solely to its title character." Writing for...

unattractive matter, and the Morning Post found that delight far outstripped the improbable character of events. Though some reviewers viewed the characters, especially...

Russian phraseme, meaning the contortion of the human body into a strange, improbable, hunched shape. This is a relatively new idiomatic expression, dating...

History Museum Rotterdam. He is also European Bureau Chief of the Annals of Improbable Research. Moeliker's father worked for forty years as a technical illustrator...

were complete—must be improbable. If it is not an early step (i.e., in the past), then the implication is that the improbable step lies in the future...

Zaützes and some other dignitaries. Yet the details given were highly improbable, and the dying emperor claimed an attempt had been made on his life. "Top...

The exact length of his reign is not known; the Turin canon suggests an improbable 95 years while the ancient Egyptian historian Manetho reports that the...

Sarah E. (11 January 2024). "How a $300 Million Flop Turned Into an Improbable Hit". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 1042-9840. Archived from the original...

Egyptian ever selected in the NFL draft. It'd be the next chapter in an improbable story". CNN. Retrieved April 25, 2025. Brown, Emily (January 2, 2025)...

Retrieved 23 September 2021. Garber, Greg (11 September 2021). "The improbable run of US Open champion Emma Raducanu". Women's Tennis Association. Archived...

2020. Howard, Johnette (December 18, 1988). "Believe It: Dennis Rodman's Improbable Life Story". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on January 11...

Akhenaten's daughter being the Younger Lady, although he notes it would be very improbable. Assuming the accuracy of the results, the Younger Lady is most likely...

"Raiders stunned by Rams: Here are six shocking facts from Baker Mayfield's improbable comeback win". CBS Sports. Archived from the original on December 10,...

from the original on 2024-09-03. Retrieved 2024-08-29. "The world's most improbable smash-hit cooking show". The Economist. 2024-10-24. Retrieved 2024-10-27...

March 13–16, 2008, in Atlanta, Georgia. The University of Georgia, the improbable winner of the tournament, earned the Southeastern Conference's automatic...

the article has been added since the release of ChatGPT, so it seems improbable that most of it is AI generated. (June 2026) (Learn how and when to remove...

government oversight gain-of-function research is subject to, and that it is improbable that research on hard-to-obtain coronaviruses could occur under the radar...

showbiz-oriented magazine Yes (novel), a 1978 novel by Thomas Bernhard Yes: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania, by Bryan Danielson, also known...

is: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Holmes follows Sir Isaac Newton's rule of "hypotheses...

acceptable", because even though it is syntactically well-formed, it is improbable in ordinary human usage: The course is jumping well. While each of these...

testifying in August 1995, admitted that Gerdes's claim was "highly improbable". Barry Scheck's eight-day cross-examination of Dennis Fung was lauded...

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Doric ἀρά (ara), "bane, ruin, curse, imprecation", though this is thought improbable by Beekes. Mosaic in Maltezana near Analipsi, Astypalaia, Greece, 5th...

and an honorary fellow of UCL in 2004. Colquhoun runs the website DC's Improbable Science, which is critical of pseudoscience, particularly alternative...

and later aired in a documentary about Washington's championship run, Improbable, which MASN aired in 2020. MASN fired Kolko and Porter amidst a round...

January 4, 2017. Busis, Hillary (January 4, 2017). "Deadpool Continues Its Improbable Road to the Oscars". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on January...

The word "furphy" is Australian slang for an erroneous or improbable story that is claimed to be factual. Furphies are supposedly heard from reputable...

speaking, improbable events will elicit a P3b, and the less probable the event, the larger the P3b. However, in order to elicit a P3b, the improbable event...

happening, but, according to the totalitarian principle, even the most improbable event will eventually happen. It took place instantly, in our perspective...

the library to be completely conventional, but the body to be highly improbable and sensational. The body of a young woman is found on the hearth rug...

(2011). "War-Time Contingency and the Balfour Declaration of 1917: An Improbable Regression" (PDF). Journal of Palestine Studies. 40 (2): 26–42. doi:10...

deprecated archival service (link) Foege, Alec (23 March 1995). "The improbable rise of Ireland's biggest musical export since U2". Rolling Stone. Retrieved...

his team won the 1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball title against improbable odds. Valvano is remembered for his ecstatic celebration after winning...

nuclear weapons, is an unmitigated absurdity" and that it was "remotely improbable" that any group of nations engaged in war would "decide upon general and...

September 22, 2020. Zurowski, Cory (November 7, 2016). "Ilhan Omar's improbable journey from refugee camp to Minnesota Legislature". City Pages. Minneapolis:...

improbable.com. 2006-08-01. Archived from the original on 2023-07-30. Retrieved 2024-08-12. "The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony". improbable.com...

among many possibilities – as the cause as nearly impossible and highly improbable. Hugo Eckener argued that the fire was started by an electric spark which...

adventures in Cold War-era Latin America, based on a real-life "day of improbable and grotesque mischief" Zevon experienced in Kauai. In addition, there...

issues in favor of melodrama, misrepresentative exaggeration, mockery, and improbable forecasts of impending doom. Outrage talk is not so much discussion as...

Huskies' hockey games. A book Love That Dirty Water: The Standells and the Improbable Red Sox Victory Anthem was published. In April 2019, Liverpool F.C., a...

which the executive board regarded as akin to James Bond's gadgets: improbably futuristic and niche devices. [citation needed] In 1984, Nokia acquired...

Press. ISBN 978-1563522963. Auletta, Ken (2004). Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire (1st ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393327496...

jackpot this time. Erin, single mother of three, a former Miss Wichita who improbably rallies a community to take on a multi-billion-dollar corporation, is...

Scout "a kind of highly constructed doll" whose speech and actions are improbable. Although acknowledging that the novel works, Mallon blasts Lee's "wildly...

two-part episode, concluding the story begun in the previous episode, "Improbable Cause". This episode was first televised in broadcast syndication in May...

position and the relatively public nature of their relationship make it improbable that it was not platonic." Rictor Norton, "The Myth of the Modern Homosexual"...

maint: deprecated archival service (link) "An oral history of 2005 Astros' improbable run". MLB.com. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved...

Once in lifetime 10−4 to 10−5 Remote Unlikely in lifetime 10−5 to 10−6 Improbable Very unlikely to occur 10−6 to 10−7 Incredible Cannot believe that it...

6548.683. PMC 1341524. PMID 3092979. Spiring, Paul R. (June 2001). "The Improbable Elephant Man". The Biologist (London, England). 48 (3). Institute of Biology...

album Appalachian Incantation, 2010 42 (dominoes), a game 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, 2023 book by Kevin Jon Davies The42, an Irish...

made by scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, it would be improbable for life not to exist somewhere else other than Earth. This argument is...

producing birds without his signature. In December 2001, the Annals of Improbable Research (bestowers of the Ig Nobel prize) teamed up with the Museum of...

Lia (August 25, 2024). "TE RJ Maryland proves to be X-factor in SMU's improbable comeback vs. Nevada". Dallas News. Retrieved September 8, 2024. "SMU's...

Retrieved October 2, 2024. Verducci, Tom (November 2, 2023). "Rangers' Improbable World Series Triumph Was Built on Trust". Sports Illustrated. Archived...

That same year, Predator was converted into 3D for a Blu-ray release. Improbably, two of the actors from the movie went on to become state governors and...

Claxton. The publishers, Simon & Schuster, described it as a story of "improbable triumphs". Prior to his resignation, Arday's publishers confirmed that...

likely that failure must be. Catastrophic failures must be extremely improbable. The airworthiness requirements for transport category (large civil aircraft...

Prize for Safety Engineering by the scientific humor journal Annals of Improbable Research. In 1998, following the theatrical success of the film, Hurtubise...

shots before collapsing visibly wounded and crawling away to hide. His improbable survival was augmented by the "luck" he acquired by rubbing the feathers...

November 22, 2022. Toler, Aric (April 9, 2023). "From Discord to 4chan: The Improbable Journey of a US Intelligence Leak". bellingcat. Archived from the original...

television commercials. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, he caught an improbable break, landing a part in the short-lived drama series Cracker on ABC....

dromedary camel passing through the eye of a needle, as a symbol of the improbable Peace of Westphalia. Engraving, Johann Vogel: Meditationes emblematicae...

(October 25, 2025). "In Utah, a former college star is 18 holes from an improbable, life-changing win". Golf Magazine. Retrieved October 26, 2025. "PGA Tour...

fiction and pure fantasy, Rod Serling argued that the former was "the improbable made possible" while the latter was "the impossible made probable". As...

"Chelsea's Giroud has silenced the doubters again with his latest, most improbable renaissance yet". ESPN. 25 July 2020. Archived from the original on 11...

contracts may be done by courts. Occasionally, claims based on highly improbable interpretations of such ambiguities are dismissed as being frivolous litigation...

2017. Ravo, Nick (April 2, 1997). "My Dinner with Ron: A chat with the improbable, ubiquitous porn star Ron Jeremy, poised on the brink of mainstream success...

that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Sherlock Holmes, Chap. 6, p. 111 The Sign of the...

Television and Jay Ward Productions. The series is based on "Peabody's Improbable History", the 1960s segments that aired as part of The Adventures of Rocky...

New York, the Pacers were widely considered to have one of the most improbable playoff runs in NBA history. The Pacers entered the draft (which was two...

Gilbey 2004, p. 22. Nark, Jason (February 2, 2019). "Groundhog Day, the improbable holiday that brings a shot in the arm to a former coal town". The Philadelphia...

New York, the Pacers were widely considered to have one of the most improbable playoff runs in NBA history. 2025–26 saw the Pacers finish with their...

Guest appearances Patrick Kavanagh Jeremy Burnham Jeremy Young Episode chronology ← Previous "Mission: Highly Improbable" Next → "Game" List of episodes...

Grant." Jack Karr of the Toronto Daily Star recalled that "a thoroughly improbable set of circumstances has been brought together by Paramount Pictures to...

demonstrate (i.e., have in common) a degree of arbitrariness, such that it is improbable that two people would independently create the same work. At its base...

Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts". The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles...

"needless". And Imperial has done nothing to prevent it happening again". DC's Improbable Science. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015. Mahul-Mellier, A-L; Huc...

Crime Family, John H. Davis, 1994, ISBN 0-06-109184-7. Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang, John Cummings and Ernest Volkman...

Johnson, Frederick L. (Spring 1989). "From Leavenworth to Congress: The Improbable Journey of Francis H. Shoemaker" (PDF). Minnesota History. Minnesota Historical...

surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending...

Bernadette calls the Douglas house and a wild sequence of events results in an improbable case of mistaken identity, the baby is somehow confused with a leg of...

This Horizon. Scientific analysis suggests that such fields are highly improbable due to the principles of quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle...

Voice 2018 Elementary Denny Mulgrew Episode: "Whatever Remains, However Improbable" 2019 Tales of the City Episode: "The Price of Oil" 2023 The Blacklist...

in English and Japanese. This episode was released on VHS paired with "Improbable Cause". "Shattered Mirror" (Continues the Mirror Universe narrative) "Star...

Court". Frontline. May 9, 2023. PBS. Lauren Mechling (May 9, 2023). "'So improbable, it's a novel': the strange story of Clarence and Ginni Thomas". The Guardian...

Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 12, 2026. Zemler, Emily. "Sombr Reflects on an Improbable Relationship in Expressive Single 'Potential' - Rolling Stone Canada"...

himself, Reilly takes the cash to the casinos and finds himself on an improbable winning streak. He pays off his hotel debts, but the supernatural nature...

Politics before 1914". In Afflerbach, Holger; Stevenson, David (eds.). An Improbable War? the Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture Before...

low p-value means either that the null hypothesis is true and a highly improbable event has occurred or that the null hypothesis is false. The following...

for the new aircraft, then known as the Type 300. One of these was the improbable Shrew. The name Spitfire was suggested by Sir Robert McLean, director...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy, it was later adapted...

are so few – they rest upon such late and slight authority; they are so improbable or so contradictory, that to compile them into a biography is like building...

sequester enough carbon to solve the climate crisis is deemed "highly improbable" by Torrella who points to the lack of accurate carbon measurement tools...

original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2020. "Past Ig Winners". improbable.com. 1 August 2006. "Cate Blanchett Can't Imagine Her Life Without Lydia...

where it is not, even though the pronunciation is the same.) It seems improbable that Greek would invent a special symbol for the bisegmental combination...

manga Sazae-san, whose character designs for Wakame Isono incorporated an improbably brief hemline. The practice was later transferred to animation when Osamu...

Speech. 17 (2): 127–128. JSTOR 486460. Metcalf, Allan. (2011). OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word. Oxford University Press, Oxford....

By the start of March, City were top of the Championship, making an improbable second successive promotion a possibility. However, a poor run ended City's...

2014. Nick Ravo (April 2, 1997). "My Dinner with Ron: A chat with the improbable, ubiquitous porn star Ron Jeremy, poised on the brink of mainstream success...

very diverse in terms of content and vary from the possible, although improbable, to the completely bizarre. The delusion can be found in various disorders...

at stake, when the teams are separated by a play-off game, though this improbable situation has never arisen in all the years the rule has existed. London...

The UConn Huskies women's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, in the NCAA...

20, 2026. Harvey, Dennis (January 3, 2023). "'The Bricklayer' Review: Improbable but Enjoyable Spyjinks From Renny Harlin". Variety. Retrieved January...

study, which was published in the satirical science magazine Annals of Improbable Research, concluded: "... the comparing apples and oranges defense should...

all written several centuries after his time and abound in legends and improbable events, creating the popular image of Shankara as "a religious leader...

Mudrian, Albert; Peel, John; Carlson, Scott (2016). Choosing death: the improbable history of death metal & grindcore (Revised and expanded death-luxe ed...

sufficiently small scale, but certain larger transformations are highly improbable because it is statistically unlikely that energy or matter will randomly...

looks much like a Bigfoot's purported appearance and consider it highly improbable that two species should have very similar ecological preferences, concluding...

the chance to win the Tour in the final time trial with a stunning and improbable solo breakaway in Stage 17. Not long after the Tour was over, however...

rope and branch meant "any attempt at suicide by hanging would have been improbable." Following a 22-hour manhunt mostly in the London Borough of Enfield...

without any fail-safe provision, a failure had to be considered "extremely improbable." This was defined as "having a probability on the order of 1×10−9 or...

WABAC machine (pronounced wayback), a fictional machine from Peabody's Improbable History, an ongoing feature of the cartoon The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show...

adjustments and insights of being someone else) – the first example being Improbable Fiction and its derivation from The Boy Who Fell into A Book and My Very...

styles. Smith, Andrew F. (2012). American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food. University of California Press. p. 95. ISBN 9780520954151. Katsumata...

Carol Kiernan as Mom Aaron D. Spears as Guard Episode chronology ← Previous "Audrey Pauley" Next → "Improbable" The X-Files season 9 List of episodes...

delusional, resulting in misdiagnosis. According to Bell et al., "sometimes, improbable reports are erroneously assumed to be symptoms of mental illness", due...

The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird is a 2022 book by Jack E. Davis that examines bald eagles in the United States. As of the publication...

Black author Rich Benjamin, in his book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, reveals how racial divides and...

empire is finally attained through conquest. Since the former way is improbable due human blindness, we should precipitate the unification by conquest...

2007. Retrieved 4 December 2007. Kaushik, Divya (23 September 2001). "Improbable theme with commercial props". The Tribune. Archived from the original...

fairy tale of princes and knights in another galaxy. The technology was improbable, the science impossible." During the rewrite of the final scenes, the...

and his Civil Contract party ahead of the June 20 vote. That makes it improbable that the authorities are deliberately stoking the tension. "Azərbaycan...

government oversight gain-of-function research is subject to, and that it is improbable that research on hard-to-obtain coronaviruses could occur under the radar...

Gipa. ISBN 978-953-95297-1-8. Sengupta, Arjun (10 December 2022). "The improbable rise of the Croatian football team". The Indian Express. Retrieved 16...

role as Mila in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, appearing in the episodes "Improbable Cause", "The Dogs of War" and the final episode, "What You Leave Behind"...

Peabody and Sherman visited Buffalo Bill in episode 59 of "Peabody's Improbable History" titled "Buffalo Bill" on January 9, 1962. The photo of Cody and...

(2019). "Ch. 31: In (Cuba) Like Flynn". Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History. Blue Rider Press. McNulty, T. Errol...

that highly improbable events do not occur. It is refuted by the fact that if all possible outcomes of a natural process are highly improbable when taken...

May 28, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021. Getlin, Josh (June 8, 2021). "The improbable true story of Judge Judy and the reporter who made her a star". The Los...

1086/ahr/108.3.915. ISSN 1937-5239. Shearman, Peter (2017-03-20). The Improbable War: China, the United States and the Continuing Logic of Great Power...

anything, it's been even more eagerly awaited than the first machine on this improbable scene, Yamaha's 500cc Tmax. This has nothing to do with the fact the Burgman...

2025. Sources Martell, Justin; McDonald, Alanna Wray (2016). Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life Of Tiny Tim. Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-908279-87-3....

affects black workers. Rich Benjamin's book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, reveals the state of residential...

specious, to act as they did would have required them to act with an improbable degree of brazen effrontery in the face of a military whose members were...

numbers. It is frequently caught by the over usage of certain statistically improbable number patterns. A notable example of rounding fraud was committed by...

was never on the island". Alan Dershowitz argued Giuffre's story was improbable, as the Secret Service would not allow Maxwell, "then a novice helicopter...

about the slapstick antics of two spies trying to kill each other with improbably elaborate traps and weapons. It was ported to the Apple II, ZX Spectrum...

Retrieved November 16, 2023. Burlingame, Jon (June 26, 2018). "Mission Improbable: The Impossible Task Of Rebooting An Iconic Movie Theme". Variety. Archived...

Greenland: Gerard Butler is here to protect Earth—and show audiences an improbably entertaining time." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of...

For Starters (2004), Miss Yesterday (2004), Time and Time Again (2005), Improbable Fiction (2005–2006), Caution Trousers (2005) and The Champion of Paribanou...

the probability diminishes. Hence the agent should focus more on vastly improbable cases with implausibly high rewards; this leads first to counter-intuitive...

consulting several experts, The Washington Post wrote that "statistically improbable is not the same thing as statistically impossible", that Novoselov and...

maint: deprecated archival service (link) Walker, Dave (May 24, 1999). "Improbable premises of 'Ally McBeal' make the show all the more engaging". The Arizona...

conclusively confirmed, most experts conclude the Russian version highly improbable. The Russian state media agency TASS claimed that Ukrainian president...

of the Mounties", "Aesop and Son", "Fractured Fairy Tales", "Peabody's Improbable History", "Bullwinkle's Corner", and "Mr. Know-it All") as well as bumpers...

He can no longer walk or communicate, making his return to public life improbable. He was discharged in June 2024 to continue his recovery at home. The...

(January 6, 2002). "Trust No 1". The X-Files. Season 9. Episode 6. Fox. "Improbable". The X-Files. April 7, 2002. Fox. Miller, Liz Shannon (February 23, 2016)...

146. ISBN 1573929794 Antony Flew. (1989). The problem of evidencing the improbable and the impossible. In G. K. Zollschan, J. F. Schumaker & G. F. Walsh...

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, United Mexican States "Past Ig Winners". improbable.com. 1 August 2006. Retrieved 16 March 2025. "Several Mexico streets are...

Retrieved September 8, 2023. Short, Simine (May 21, 2023). Flight Not Improbable: Octave Chanute and the Worldwide Race Toward Flight. Springer Biographies...

Thomas (March 6, 2022). "Rox prospect Doyle continues to impress on improbable path". MLB.com. Retrieved March 9, 2022. "Doyle earns ABCA/Rawlings Gold...

earns first NBA Finals berth with masterful Game 6 performance as Suns' improbable run continues". CBSSports.com. Retrieved July 1, 2021. Greif, Andrew (June...

Spring 1981, pages 50–65. Siegel, Barry. Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to...

John Shiban John Shiban March 31, 2002 (2002-03-31) 9ABX09 7.29 195 13 "Improbable" Chris Carter Chris Carter April 7, 2002 (2002-04-07) 9ABX14 8.62 196...

outweight Japan's. The German general staff considered a Japanese victory improbable. In an interview with Reuters, William Lang predicted defeat for Japan...

Title". FloHoops. Retrieved October 18, 2025. "Blue Hens fall short of improbable CAA title and NCAA tourney bid". Delaware Public Media. Retrieved October...

is best known for his elaborately staged digital photocompositions of improbable situations. Wexler was born in Palm Springs, California. His father, Donald...

headlining, attracted media and audience fascination because it seemed more improbable than ever a Van Halen tour with Roth or Hagar. It drew large crowds and...

ISBN 978-0-385-33381-8. Wolff, Gregory (October 25, 1987). "A Wildly Improbable Gang of Nine". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2015. Zinn, Howard;...

debut album Scream Bloody Gore by two years. The book Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore credited bassist/vocalist Jeff Becerra...

ISBN 0-380-81127-8, p. 184 Mudrian, Albert (2000). Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore. Feral House. ISBN 1-932595-04-X...

advice – and his condition worsened over the course of a week. It is improbable that eating too many lampreys was actually the cause of his death. A Listeria...

The Washington Post gave the film three stars out of four, saying, "An improbably heartwarming, not to mention visually delightful, diversion". Rick Groen...

tour attracted media and audience fascination because it seemed more improbable than even a Van Halen tour with Roth or Hagar. The tour drew large crowds...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable to describe the books that many people own but have not read. Taleb argued...

2013. Retrieved November 28, 2014. Getlin, Josh (June 8, 2021). "The improbable true story of Judge Judy and the reporter who made her a star". The Los...

Pelexmovies...in this travesty of a B-rated western, an improbable script saw the improbable hero and heroine (both American let it be noted not Australian)...

Retrieved 25 August 2020. Grayson, Nathan (September 8, 2020). "Among Us' Improbable Rise To The Top Of Twitch". Kotaku Australia. Archived from the original...

October 18, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2013. Rosen, Jody (June 2, 2006). "The improbable rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers". Slate Magazine. Archived from the...

palates. Smith, Andrew F. (2012). American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food. University of California Press. pp. 91. and notes 31 and 32. "Sushi:...

2026). "El Grande Americano, explained: Wrestling's hottest angle is more improbable than you can possibly imagine". Uncrowned. Yahoo Sports. Retrieved August...

perestroika: Adventures in Eastern Bloc cuisine (26 March 2019). "Forshmak: The improbable Soviet-Jewish dish". Food Perestroika. Retrieved 2025-05-23. Moscow Times...

the first German soldier to enter Fort Douaumont, which was considered improbable since only one report mentioned him. Captain Charles de Gaulle, the future...

from the original on 21 December 2014. "Berlin as a fashion capital: the improbable rise". Fashion United UK. 12 January 2012. Archived from the original...

Curve: "... Blindfold EP sort bien en mars 1991, imposant un mélange improbable techno / dreampop." Pinkard 2024, pp. 88–89 Pinkard 2024, pp. 90–91 Pinkard...

Scottish accent and British cultural references made success in the US improbable. His increased profile led to contact with other celebrities; including...

the names Pausanias gives for these three Muses indicate that it is improbable he "is referring to a genuinely ancient tradition". Mneme Lake in Antarctica...

(April 22, 2024). "'Never seen that': Amateur's lucky bounce leads to improbable birdie". Golf Magazine. Bucholtz, Andrew (April 21, 2024). "'Something...

Derby, and automatically qualified by winning the Haskell Invitational Improbable – automatically qualified by winning both the Whitney Stakes and Awesome...

History Press. p. 190. ISBN 9780752487298. Escott, Beryl (1991). Mission Improbable: A salute to the RAF women of SOE in wartime France. London: Patrick Stevens...

Long-Running Experiments Archived 5 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Improbable Research. Ord-Hume, Arthur W. J. G. (1977). Perpetual Motion: The History...

York. Kennedy has also published a non-fiction book entitled O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats,...

edited by Gary Downie. She also provided illustrations for Climbing Mount Improbable and Astrology for dogs (and owners) by William Fairchild (1980). Ward...

there was a great emphasis in art in a small wasp waist, often taken to improbable extremes. Both sexes are often shown with rather thick belts or girdles...

concerning the lives of saints written in her day, "We should not say improbable things, or things we do not know. We must see their real, and not their...

something worth fighting for, and tries to convince Rev. Dave of the improbable outcome. Overcome with guilt, Adam confesses to the fire through a text...

"Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. GSP sounded crazy at first, now seems like (improbable) dream fight". MMAjunkie. April 9, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018. "Dana...

reliability level. The information content is rated between 1 (confirmed) to 5 (improbable), with 6 for information whose reliability can not be evaluated. For example...

"LaMelo Ball draws 'MVP' chants during third-quarter takeover in Hornets' improbable opening night comeback win". CBS Sports. Archived from the original on...

Episode: A Bang and a Whimper First Night Arnold Claybill Episode: The Improbable Mr Claybill 1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Max Carrados Episode: The...

noted by Williams and others, adaptations can be identified by their improbable complexity, species universality, and adaptive functionality. A question...

George Vancouver, and John Gore, thought the existence of a route was 'improbable'. Before reaching 65°N they found the coastline pushing them further south...

over, sleeping in tents or over the garage. The Alps, Adolf Hitler, and improbable powerful organisations have been subject to crime fiction. The Alps acted...

take the championship. Ding's path to winning the title was called "most improbable" by The Guardian. The previous World Champion was Magnus Carlsen, who...

important. The study showed that accurate predictions of growth were improbable. Calculating the case fatality rate (CFR) accurately is difficult in an...

Ole Boys and the Nazis in pursuit. They elude them all with a series of improbable maneuvers, including a miraculous gravity-defying escape from the neo-Nazis...

Sherdog.com". Sherdog. Retrieved 2025-09-01. King, Nolan. "LFA 112 results: Improbable one-night tournament final leads to new welterweight champion". MMA Junkie...

but required by the outcome of subsequent history, that it is not an improbable assumption. And since scripture required the messiah to be Davidic, anyone...

Simmons replacement". Spin.ph. Retrieved February 7, 2023. Chan, Lorne. "Improbable Path: Jonathon Simmons' Rise". NBA.com. Retrieved October 27, 2016. Simmons...

Shwartzman Joins Galaxy of Indy Stars with Improbable Pole". "Robert Shwartzman Joins Galaxy of Indy Stars with Improbable Pole". IndyCar.com. Retrieved October...

Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-312-42600-2. Reid, Jan (July 5, 2010). The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78776-6...

OCLC 228136567. For general audiences Dawkins, Richard (1996). Climbing Mount Improbable (1st American ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-03930-6...

the book takes readers on such a wild ride that some may find it too improbable to swallow." Rankin, Seija (November 18, 2021). "First look: 'Final Girls'...

North Stars stunned them in six games in the first round en route to an improbable Stanley Cup Final appearance. In 1991–92, the Blackhawks – with Roenick...

exceedingly rare in real life. It is considered an inappropriate and improbable practice to allow CSI personnel to be involved in detective work, as it...

He also found the authors' proposals for preventing devastation more improbable than "the idea that software will murder us all", but added, "still, the...

medical doctors stating that the actions described were anatomically improbable. The Portland District Attorney's office declined to prosecute, citing...

1987), p.xi. Quoted by Michael Martin, The Resurrection as Initially Improbable (chapter). In: Price, Robert M.; Lowder, Jeffrey Jay, eds. (2005). The...

Andromeda Galaxy. The stars involved are sufficiently spaced that it is improbable that any of them would individually collide, though some stars may be...

of Pune Mirror wrote "It’s a wonder how the film manages to deliver an improbable, but marginally acceptable climax, but it does. Considering the rest of...

theater contributed ("I ... stir the sauce", he wrote). "It appears ... improbable that I should remain with the theatre. It is ... terrible. ... I can hardly...

Titans. Suss, Nick (December 12, 2023). "Fearless Will Levis recounts improbable Tennessee Titans comeback". The Tennessean. Retrieved August 3, 2024....

humor and the constant creation of memes related to situations considered improbable or chaotic involving the club. On social media, the expression "coisas...

Licinius Crassus (consul 171 BC), his mother's brother, or (although improbable) by a son of the consul of 205 BC, Publius Licinus Crassus Dives. Mucianus...

cities". Txlawyers.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019. "Improbable Research » Blog Archive". Improbable.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019. Top Attorneys of North...

slacks with a belt in it, in which he can store and retrieve a number of improbable objects including a Yak. He also has a tendency to pounce on attractive...

became the head of the school, but according to McGuckin, this is highly improbable. It is more likely that he was given a paid teaching position, perhaps...

obstacle. Can this unbreakable love conquer his thirst for revenge? This improbable love story puts Kuzgun and Dila on a dangerous path, as the forces of...

there would always be a certain number of subjects who demonstrated improbable success. To illustrate this, he speculates about what would happen if...

ISBN 978-0-415-96841-6. Afflerbach, Holger; David Stevenson, David (2012). An Improbable War: The Outbreak of World War 1 and European Political Culture. Berghan...

of view, the existence of a homogeneous Proto-Slavic people is judged improbable. Slavic linguistic unity was to some extent visible as late as Old Church...

young girls accused of the murder and reveals shocking facts about the improbable killer via the eyes of Rebecca Godfrey and a local police officer. Lily...

starting with a tornado-related emergency and placing characters in improbable situations, and complimented the show for being "entertainingly silly...

S2CID 143563307. Müller, Hans-Peter (2022). "Max Weber: The Making of an Improbable Classic". In Sica, Alan (ed.). The Routledge International Handbook on...

modifies his position by suggesting that a few coincidences are so extremely improbable that they warrant more serious scientific attention. Subjective anomalous...

"curses" seem not to work, but inevitably, in camp fashion, some terrible, improbable mishap occurs to his opponents. The voice for his character is based on...

probability in a year. As with all probability events, it is possible, though improbable, to have multiple 100-year storms in a single year. The Quantitative Precipitation...

Press. ISBN 0-8135-3852-1. Mudrian, Albert (2000). Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore. Feral House. ISBN 1-932595-04-X...

episodes as "The List", "The Post-Modern Prometheus", "Triangle", and "Improbable", as well as the second feature film, The X-Files: I Want to Believe,...

separated from the rock, and very much in the Jewish taste; it is not improbable, that this place was inhabited by Jews. It was a bishopric, and there...

Nassim N. (2010). The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: 'On Robustness and Fragility'. Random House Publishing...

Retrieved March 7, 2022. Danielson, Bryan; Tello, Craig (2015). Yes: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781466876620...

with fiery call to the 'barricades'". Reuters. 14 February 2025. "The Improbable Resurgence of Die Linke". jacobin.com. Archived from the original on 11...

Professor David L. Kirp, in his 2011 book, Kids First, and his 2013 book, Improbable Scholars, praised Union City's education system for bringing poor, mostly...

Olympic's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of the Olympics' Gold Medal Gaffes, Improbable Triumphs, and Other Oddities. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-59797-397-7...

with Limbaugh Doctors". The Palm Beach Post. November 9, 2005. pp. 3B. "Improbable ally joins Limbaugh privacy fight". The St. Petersburg Times. January...

sightings of, or interaction with, Hawaii must have occurred. “It seems improbable that Spanish mariners could have made several hundred trips … without...

Irish Rover" (Roud 4379) is an Irish folk song about a magnificent though improbable sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end. It has been recorded by...

leading shopping streets and districts by city Latimer D. (2014) The Improbable Beijing Guidebook, Sinomaps, Beijing, ISBN 978-7-5031-8451-2, p. 52 Li...

issue was edited by Marc Abrahams, who left to form the rival Annals of Improbable Research and create the Ig Nobel Prize.[citation needed] The final Blackwell...

merits, and most of its flaws. It's fatally sentimental and, at times, improbable, even as it labors for realism." Publishers Weekly wrote "Bezos has a...

original on 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2010-07-04. Sifton, Sam (2016-01-25). "The Improbable Rise of Mississippi Roast". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved...

2022-04-08. Bercovici, Jeff. "How The Green Bay Packers Became Football's Most Improbable Financial Juggernaut". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2022-04-08...

films starring Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto. A contemporary review said, "The improbable story is made faintly plausible, and definitely thrilling as a result...

LUXEMBOURG – Find 2018 Exhibitors – WTM London". london.wtm.com. "The Improbable Ales of Belgian Luxembourg". DRAFT. 18 August 2016. "Luxembourg (Province...

universe contains phantom energy, regarded as theoretically somewhat improbable. However, in the standard Lambda cold dark matter model (Lambda-CDM or...

tapping both of his feet in bounds. The catch was statistically the most improbable completion of the Next Gen Stats era, with only a 3.2% probability of...

Kingdom during the 1930s, had been lovers in London. There were even rather improbable reports during the Second World War that she kept a signed photograph...

or belief that humans may associate with experiencing improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative events Auspicious dreams in Jainism...

(August 3, 2025). "'No stars' Ja'Kobi Jackson, George Gumbs Jr. making improbable impact for Gators". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved January 17, 2026. Goodall...

theoretical basis for this possibility. At that time, fission was thought to be improbable if not impossible on theoretical grounds. While physicists expected elements...

(Varney was in his 50s when the series began) pursuing "an endless array of improbably available 'dolly birds' ". The series was made into three films, On the...

hopes will help him catch the Road Runner. The devices invariably fail in improbable and spectacular fashion. In August, September and October 1982, the National...

voicing of ejectives that have been postulated but widely derided as improbable in that family. The correspondences have not been well worked out (Rutul...

Ont.: Blake Books. ISBN 978-0968706251. Jones, Liane (1990). Mission Improbable: salute to the Royal Air Force women of Special Operations Executive in...

Stars. BearManor Media. Lemon, Richard. "Live from Litchfield! It's the Improbable Duo of Dick Ebersol and Susan Saint James". People. Retrieved June 25...

confirmed; possible but not logical; no other information on the subject 5 - Improbable: Not confirmed; not logical in itself; contradicted by other information...

on June 12, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2018. "Howling in the Abyss: The Improbable Success of Nirvana's 'Nevermind'". Observer. September 23, 2016. Retrieved...

both "suitable" for the story the film wants to tell, opting "for an improbable tone of costumbrista comedy" instead. List of Spanish films of 2014 Bayona...

supported his former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai's somewhat improbable campaign to become Secretary-General of the United Nations. Despite debate...

since it eliminates possibilities merely on the grounds that they are improbable. The process of elimination can only narrow down the possibilities; thus...

Rainey Harper College. – via Internet Archive. "Improbable Research: The 24/7 Lectures". Improbable Research. 2017. Retrieved 2019-02-20. Abrahams, Marc...

certainly remarkable considering the changes required. In Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins describes this imitation as "one of the most astonishing...

state of Mexico Acapantzingo, Cuernavaca ^ "Such an easy assumption of an improbable sexual relationship", said Alan Palmer, "fails to understand the nature...

spiral [meaning helical] structure. Straight chain untwisted is highly improbable. Absence of reflections on meridian in χtalline [crystalline] form suggests...

Service. p. 731. Volume 88, Issue 3 Combs, Wayne (2019). "KMZU and WHB". Improbable Encounters: The Story of a Broadcast Journalist. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-7948-3303-6...

the title of Cytherodikes, held his office only for one year, it is not improbable that the office of harmost was of the same duration. The Thebans also...

killed, of whom only 4 were men-at-arms. Hoskins comments that these "seem improbably low". Modern sources estimate Anglo-Gascon fatalities at about 40 men-at-arms...

Mutilation". Writer Albert Mudrian noted in his book Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore that the Mutilation demo "earned [Chuck]...

Magazine. 20 September 1971. "The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony". improbable.com. 13 September 2024. Retrieved 13 September 2024. Cardinal, Colton...

prestige lost, but it allowed the empire to last, something that seemed improbable during the first years of Tahmasp's reign. Almost simultaneously with...

(August 3, 2017). "How Planet of the Apes Writer Mark Bomback Got His Improbable Hollywood Start". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on...

Bradford prostitute with a cosh at least once. Byford noted that it seemed improbable that the crimes for which Sutcliffe was charged and convicted were the...

human intellect, over the centuries, has been to explain how the complex, improbable appearance of design in the universe arises. The natural temptation is...

management. Gilbert commented that the game's origin would have been improbable in the latter case, as the company was unable to assess the viability...

Shashwat (21 June 2023). "Leask 91* trumps Campher 120 to give Scotland an improbable win". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 June 2023. "Scotland's 15-Player Squad...

g. as a leptoceratopsid or a protoceratopsid, was less likely; it was improbable that it was a ceratopsoid. The fact that the holotype was a subadult might...

 114. Retrieved June 17, 2024. Thompson, Paul (April 19, 2021). "The Improbable Empire: Master P's 'Ice Cream Man' and the Birth of a Southern Rap Dynasty"...

the smaller ones by boys, but the exclusion of women entirely may be improbable. Though many hypotheses have been proposed for the symbolism of cave art...

10, 2023 Martell, Justin (February 9, 2016). Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life Of Tiny Tim. Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-908279-87-3. Tarling, Lowell...

bringing the Porters to Africa; the novel brought them there through the improbable coincidence of a second mutiny. The role of Tarzan was given to Gordon...

episodes, he was cast as a Cardassian informant in the third-season episode "Improbable Cause". Following this, Ruskin appeared in his only Star Trek film role...

Lenny Dykstra Part 2". Maxim. Frankie, Christopher (2013). Nailed!: The Improbable Rise and Spectacular Fall of Lenny Dykstra. Running Press. ISBN 9780762448289...

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot is a memoir written by entertainer Craig Ferguson. The book details various experiences...

which adorns each new scene with a spectacular swagger of violence and improbable turns, there is a strong feeling that Luc Besson now makes films from...

Abrahams, Marc (2001). "The Latest on Long-Running Experiments". Annals of Improbable Research. 7 (3): 18–20. doi:10.3142/107951401782431809. Archived from...

Books, May 2009) By Blood We Live (Night Shade Books, August 2009) The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Night Shade Books, September 2009) The...

Nobel Prize in chemistry from the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research for "solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions...

place in 1994 when the Dolphins ran the Fake Spike play, giving them an improbable victory and halting the Jets' momentum that season, serving as a precursor...

the first people to see Antarctica. This idea was dismissed as highly improbable in a reply in the same journal that criticised the methodology used and...

According to Le Figaro, "Ten years after the first animated film, the improbable duo embarks on a new adventure full of charm and intelligence. A delightful...

during and after the Liberation War, the ICJ report argued that it is improbable that "spontaneous and frenzied mob violence against a particular section...

rejected by non-Albanian scholars. John Wilkes has described it as "a highly improbable reconstruction of Albanian history". Some Albanian scholars even today...

America's varied history, geography, demography, politics, myths, and beliefs—improbable and marvelous things are made possible. Furthermore, Carpentier's meaning...

position at the mayor's company, Bloomberg L.P. ... After Mr. Bloomberg's improbable victory in the 2001 mayor's race, both Mr. Skyler and Mr. Sheekey followed...

game of Magic, "the winning strategy is non-computable", making it an improbable challenge to devise computer opponents that can play Magic in a mathematically...

from the L.A. Weekly, "Dark Blue is stuffed to the gills with blithely improbable coincidence and subsidiary story line... Shelton is a likable, generous...

Stanley Fish wrote that the film is a standard caper film in which "some improbable task has to be pulled off by a combination of ingenuity, training, deception...

released by the foundation on 20 April 2007. Dawkins' book Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) was developed from the ideas presented in the lectures, and the...

whilst batting at number nine and taking several crucial wickets in an improbable Derbyshire victory. He took 47 wickets during his debut season, but a...

is a girl fleeing her abusive foster family. The two join forces on an improbable escape to freedom. In the fictional South American country of Diamandra...

Britain. Unlike some early critics, who considered the scenes of debauchery improbable, Harrison and Stanford believed them to be "described in a fashion which...

2024 article in The Financial Times wrote that the book "has become an improbable sensation. Buoyed by a groundswell of popular interest in trauma and psychology...

Rumors. Retrieved January 4, 2026. Speier, Alex (August 13, 2024). "The improbable journey of Mickey Gasper leads to the big leagues with the Red Sox". The...

2024. Retrieved April 19, 2024. Abraham, Peter (April 19, 2024). "An improbable path finally led pitcher Cam Booser to the majors". The Boston Globe....

or an undescribed species on a mountainside in Iran or Peru. It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself...

earth-goddess, and that Demeter is "Mother-Earth". Liddell & Scott find this "improbable" and Beekes writes, "there is no indication that [da] means 'earth'",...

Craft continued to concertize and to write. His 2002 autobiography An Improbable Life details his life before, during, and after his friendship with Stravinsky...

Roy (December 9, 2018). "Dak rallies from shaky start, sends Cowboys to improbable win". Shreveport Times. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020...

gaining his recollections and behavior through extra-sensory perception improbable. When there is correlation between congenital deformities or birthmarks...

Gardiner (not to be confused with Martin Gardner), a former contributor to Improbable Research, which hosts the satirical Ig Nobel prize. The wiki grew to have...

the ESPY Awards In April 2012, Abbott's autobiography, Imperfect: An Improbable Life (ISBN 0345523253), co-written with Tim Brown, was published by Ballantine...

Caprara Gian". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 11 July 2026. "Past Ig Winners". Improbable Research. 1 August 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2026. admin_academia (31 May...

Retrieved 10 July 2026. Edouard, Maréchal (25 September 2022). "Scène improbable en D2 néerlandaise : deux jaunes pour deux simulations en une minute"...

by Bryson DeChambeau and Matt Fitzpatrick, with DeChambeau making an improbable comeback despite being 5 down after 7, leaving Europe with a 131⁄2–81⁄2...

the system of warfare adopted by the Arabs in those times, it is not improbable that the number of captives here specified fell into Musa's hands. It...

Aviation Regulations (FAR). A catastrophic failure must have an extremely improbable rate, defined as one in a billion flight hours, also stated as less than...

(2009). Chris Barsanti of PopMatters opined that he played his role with "improbable charm". According to R. Kurt Osenlund of Slant Magazine, Isaac became...

retain his youth and thus his sexual appeal to Hadrian. However, this is improbable because Hadrian deemed both castration and circumcision to be abominations...

of Miss Sarah Brown" is a short story by Damon Runyon telling of the improbable—but eventually triumphant—love between an inveterate gambler (Sky Masterson)...

Country". Author Jan Reid devotes a chapter to Stevenson in his book The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, dubbing him "The Voice". "My Maria" was posthumously...

complexity, and proposed a law of conservation of information that extremely improbable "complex specified information" could be conveyed by natural means but...

ISBN 9780674029200. Retrieved June 10, 2024. Abrahams, Marc (January 17, 2011), "Improbable research: measuring the fog of prose", The Guardian, archived from the...

existence of a deity and that God's existence, while not impossible, is improbable. Stenger writes that when Stephen Jay Gould said religion was outside...

been seen in nature.[citation needed] Although natural sightings are improbable due to the differences in habitat preference and social structure between...

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. pp. 93–102. Cousins, Norman (1972). The Improbable Triumvirate: John F. Kennedy, Pope John, Nikita Khrushchev. New York:...

Baltimore, New York and Wilmington, although, given the lack of record, it is improbable that their membership ran into the thousands claimed by Cobbett, or that...

At anything less than stellar densities, three-body collisions are too improbable. In inertial confinement, both stellar densities and temperatures are...

are plagued with serious methodological limitations and several highly improbable results, concluding that no evidence indicates such low doses cause any...

guided by the fact that an increase in the forces now at your disposal is improbable. — Robertson to Allenby, received 2 November 1917 From 1 to 6/7 November...

– "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth", as sometimes the impossible explanation makes more...

division and migration of the Slavs is criticized for being unnatural and improbable with current argumentation. Since the 10th century both Roman and Slavic...

Saints' Day), Darton, Longman and Todd published Coles's book Lives of the Improbable Saints, illustrated by Ted Harrison, a précis of the life stories of nearly...

retrieved January 18, 2014 (German) "Berlin as a fashion capital: the improbable rise". Fashion United UK. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2014. Munich...

Brooks, M. Evan. Military History's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Improbable Victories, Unlikely Heroes, and Other Martial Oddities. Potomac Books...

Water-dominated atmospheres, though suggested by some density estimates, are improbable for the planets because they are expected to be unstable under the conditions...

Spanish exploration and conquests in South America. In one of the most improbably successful voyages in known history, Orellana managed to sail the length...

two consecutive 89-loss seasons in 1986 and 1987 were followed by an improbable World Championship in 1988; the 1988 championship was highlighted by Kirk...

Retrieved 2026-06-23. Aguilar, Carlos (2025-12-05). "'The Stories' Review: An Improbable Connection Between Two People From Different Worlds Reveals Egypt's Recent...

Times, Carino Chocano felt that the film "carries its messed-up, highly improbable premise so lightly and gracefully that it ultimately comes off as a sweet...

large volume that reaching an asteroid without aiming carefully would be improbable. Nonetheless, hundreds of thousands of asteroids are currently known,...

several sophisticated books of humor. These include Van Rooten's Book of Improbable SaintsThe Floriculturist's Vade Mecum of Exotic and Recondite Plants,...

science fiction and fantasy are two different things: science fiction, the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable. What would you have...

the field. Kelly, Paul (April 21, 2024). "Dixon Makes Magic To Pull Off Improbable Long Beach Win". IndyCar.com. Retrieved September 19, 2024. "Entry List"...

fusilli. He suspects that ASSMAN is proctologist humor, since hilarious, improbable cases of rectal foreign bodies abound in their line of work. This gives...

themselves. Much like Krimi films, gialli plots tended to be outlandish and improbable, occasionally employing supernatural elements. Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood...

Ernest had two mistresses, and was living with them and Alexandrine "in an improbable ménage which made the couple a laughing-stock to all but their family"...

April 2026. Kenigsberg, Ben (11 July 2019). "'Summer Night' Review: An Improbable Evening of Formative Experiences". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...

lost all hydraulic systems and flight controls, an event considered so improbable that no backup flight controls were provided and no emergency procedures...

Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, "What plot it has is borrowed, improbably, from Henry IV, and whenever anyone manages to speak an entire paragraph...

et al. 2017)". Eurogenes Blog. 28 March 2017. Mallory: "It is highly improbable that the Indo-Aryans of Western Asia migrated eastwards, for example with...

bleacherreport.com. Retrieved 2018-04-06. Passan, Jeff (2019-02-04). "Luke Hagerty Improbably Comeback". ESPN. Retrieved 2018-02-04. Reeve, Elle (July 28, 2021). "Simone...

Biographer Justin Martell suggested in his book Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim that Tiny and Howard may have had a falling out. In 1974...

September 8, 2025. Retrieved October 30, 2025. "Titans snap 10-game skid with improbable comeback to beat Cardinals 22-21". CBS Sports. October 6, 2025. Retrieved...

Mombauer, Annika (2007). "The First World War: Inevitable, Avoidable, Improbable Or Desirable? Recent Interpretations On War Guilt and the War's Origins"...

Life. Hachette Digital. ISBN 978-0-316-01778-7. Reid, Jan (2004). The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Edition. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70197-7...

000–30,000 (in the 1990s) or even to 50,000–100,000 individuals, perhaps improbably. Within Canada, the population on Banks Island was once claimed at up...

unfinished Dirk Gently novel. In 2023, Unbound published 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, a collection of Adams's notes and essays edited...

daily life and an enthusiasm for the basics", but rejects King's view as improbable that Pope Julius allowed Michelangelo authority over the iconology of...

Danielson and Craig Tello co-wrote Danielson's autobiography Yes: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania. Later that year, he was one...

Scientist. Retrieved May 4, 2024. "Troy Bear 2". www.improbable.com. "Troy Flamerproof". www.improbable.com. "Ferocious fire-paste". Daily Planet. September...

"Cogno-Intellectualism, Rhetorical Logic, and the Craske-Trump Theorem" (PDF). Annals of Improbable Research. 6 (5): 15–16. Retrieved 2008-02-22. Tony Hey (1999). "Richard...

Retrieved December 17, 2022. J. Leskosky, Richard (November 4, 2004). "Improbable 'Saw' surprises, but still not worth a see". The News-Gazette. Champaign-Urbana...

1967 he appeared in The Avengers episode entitled "Mission ... Highly Improbable". In the late 1970s, he served as narrator and host for Follow Me!, a...

Savages in order to make room for Cultivators of the Earth, it seems not improbable that Rum may be the appointed Means. It has already annihilated all the...

unglaubliche Geschichte von Death Metal & Grindcore [Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore] (in German). I.P. Verlag Jeske und...

cederá ante jugada cartista, pero pérdida de investidura de Cabrera es improbable - Política - ABC Color". ABC Color (in Spanish). 6 August 2025. Retrieved...

(15 January 2022). "Human Review: Thrilling And Thought-Provoking, Yet Improbable At Junctures". Outlook. Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved...

Griffin, Julia (August 8, 2014). "Grit and limbs propelled Misty Copeland's improbable rise through ballet's ranks". PBS. Retrieved September 4, 2014. Macaulay...

(October 10, 2025). "BLACKPINK'S JISOO and Zayn Explore Contours of an Improbable New Love on Smoldering 'Eyes Closed' Duet". Billboard. Archived from the...

A+ to F. A. O. Scott writes: "Mr. Spielberg seems to be attempting the improbable feat of melding Kubrick's chilly, analytical style with his own warmer...

Schroeder in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strips, who frequently – if improbably – plays Beethoven on his toy piano. Schroeder lives in a house whose street...

daughters His cousin, Pete Thomas, also played football. "The remarkable, improbable career of Stephen Neal by California State University, Bakersfield". Exposure...

Hellenization of some Turks who settled in the region is not "altogether improbable". Giresun province and its region is known as Chepni province in history...

AuthorDigital (Adept Stusios / Arcadia Games) and was Chief Creative Officer at Improbable. Roper was Vice President/GM at Disney Interactive Studios from 2011 to...

which has run in various publications since 1957, featuring a series of improbable hypothetical football scenarios that then invites the reader to make the...

over as if looking for food. List of Ig Nobel Prize winners "Improbable Research". improbable.com. Retrieved June 24, 2015. Featherstone, D. and Herzing...

stems from Nassim Taleb's book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The narrative fallacy can be problematic as it can lead to individuals...

appeared in the penultimate episode of the 1967 series ("Mission ... Highly Improbable"), she was considered as the replacement for a departing Diana Rigg. The...

time. Liefeld has also been criticized for designing characters with an improbable profusion of weapons, accessories, and pouches, a tendency that was subject...

ISBN 978-1-925706-17-8. Martell, Justin (February 9, 2016). Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life Of Tiny Tim. Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-908279-87-3. "Chameleon /...

levelled the match by winning the fourth. Connors recuperated and made an improbable run to the 1991 US Open semifinals which he later said were "the best...

accidentally killing a patient. In each season, as a running gag, he suffers and improbably survives gruesome and near-fatal injuries, leaving him increasingly debilitated...

(English version, voice) 1996 High Tide Toni Green One Episode: Mission Improbable Santa with Muscles Helen Chu 1998 Girl Barn Girl #1 Can't Hardly Wait...

of the existing genus it has been also called Pinus succinifera. It is improbable that the production of amber was limited to a single species; and indeed...

Olivares. Cambridge: Canto Press. Fernándo-Armesto, Filippe (2000). "The Improbable Empire". In Carr, Raymond (ed.). Spain: A History. Oxford: Oxford University...

Jaguars destroying Miami in a 62–7 blowout loss. The Jaguars managed an improbable upset victory during the 2021 Season as the team had declined severely...