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The unlikelihood of this turn of events—a niece being the first to find her uncle’s corpse—dissipates into the dynamic of the call: Shula’s bored, patient matter-of-factness, her father’s jolly, scattershot drunkenness.—
Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2025 -
The story of Sara’s alleged suicide is a cascade of low-probability events blurring together in a pool of statistical unlikelihood.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Preventability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preventability. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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