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What does plausible mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word plausible? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible
  2. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
  3. (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
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It has come up with the plausible, although ridiculous, excuse that it has software problems with 103,000 handsets and so has had to recall them.
It is intuitively plausible, yet many philosophers, especially pragmatists and Wittgensteinians, reject it.
One cannot exactly say that this solution, though plausible and well grounded, has been accepted by subsequent scholars.
Even so, its new forecast of flat prices looks plausible and matches my view.
I consider that on balance, on the material before me, this explanation is plausible.
A discourse for which there were few takers earlier began to sound plausible.

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