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possible in English:

1. possibility possibility


For the crime of first degree murder, this court hereby sentences you to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The possibility that the explosion was caused by carelessness cannot be ruled out.
The main reason is that the subjects were totally unaware of the possibility of shortcuts.
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If Buddhism is attractive, it is because it appears as a possibility of touching the infinite and obtaining happiness without having any concrete religious obligations. A spiritual auto-eroticism of some sort.
It's not clear right now whether time travel is really something that exists in reality but its possibility has been proven by theoretical physics.
N-no it's not that ... it's that there could be someone who would need me for what I am, for my true self, I hadn't even thought of that possibility.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility for it.
It would be very interesting if, the soonest possible, there would be the possibility to do advanced searches on the Tatoeba database.
If I considered the possibility of catching the flu every time I kiss a girl I don't know, I'd have no luck with the ladies at all.
The gesture of adolescence, which raves for this or that on one day with the ever-present possibility of damning it as idiocy on the next, is now socialized.
It was announced that there is a high possibility of the fuel within the nuclear reactor of Nuclear Plant 1 melting.
Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility.
I had never even thought of the possibility of working in the USA until I was offered a job there.
We raised our eyebrows for a possibility, exchanged a smile if the man was good-looking, and made a grimace if he made 3 minutes feel like 3 hours.

English word "possible"(possibility) occurs in sets:

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2. possibly possibly


He couldn't possibly succeed.
I was just wondering if Tom could possibly still be at school.
Possibly he knows who broke the windows.
Possibly, the accident will delay his arrival.
If something is an apple, then it's either red or green, or possibly both.
Honest men and knaves may possibly wear the same cloth.
Gyoza stuffing? I made some gyoza at home but, possibly because I didn't have enough dough, I had some of the filling left over.
This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
Possibly because he's got a beard, he looks scary at first glance but he's really a kind man.
Did you possibly not notice until just now? "Er, well ... it was just so beyond my imagination that ..."
The cleanup at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could take years, possibly decades.
How could he possibly have effected that kind of change in that amount of time?
No rational person, of whatever political persuasion, could possibly object to the program.
There is a chance of showers today and possibly a thunderstorm.
We'll do everything we possibly can to help. Could I possibly borrow your bike?

English word "possible"(possibly) occurs in sets:

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3. impossibility


Working from home would be an impossibility.
Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

English word "possible"(impossibility) occurs in sets:

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Word Formation (Year 3)