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likely target

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meanings of likelyand target


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likely
adjective
uk /ˈlaɪ.kli/ us /ˈlaɪ.kli/
If something is likely, it will probably happen or ...
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target
noun
uk /ˈtɑː.ɡɪt/ us /ˈtɑːr.ɡɪt/
an object shot at during shooting practice, often a circle with a pattern of rings, or any object or place at which bullets, bombs, etc. ...
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Examples of likely target


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Mutual suppression offers among the simplest mechanisms for visual selective attention; the most effective stimulus represents the most likelytarget for a saccade.
Surely, the military lesson of history is that the flanks are the more likelytarget than the centre.
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There is no justification for assuming that there are no aggregations of houses or buildings in reception areas which are a likelytarget for incendiary attack.
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Pine trees usually stand taller than other species, which also makes them a likelytarget.
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The ranch's isolation and its herd of workhorses made it a likelytarget for attack.
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For drug addiction, the synapse is the most likelytarget as it involves communication between neurons.
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The floods cost 32 lives officially; however, a more likelytarget is suspected to be around 50 people, as well as an estimated $15-20 billion in damages.
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Because the cost centre has a negative impact on profit (at least on the surface) it is a likelytarget for rollbacks and layoffs when budgets are cut.
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Because its activity is suppressed in the presence of survival-promoting proteins, this protein is suggested as a likelytarget for antiapoptotic proteins.
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Contingency plans include massive evacuation of civilians from likelytarget areas, threatened with attack by conventional forces in time of war.
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Both agricultural pests and disease vectors are likely targets of such programmes.
Benson, seeing itself as a likelytarget, decided to add as many civic improvements as they could before this happened.
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Politicians, businessmen, as well as the less likely targets to satire at once feared them and admired them.
We are never told, for example, about likely targets and what areas must be protected.
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By giving notice of them, would not the likely targets be dispersed and the effectiveness of the air operations minimised?
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We have already made it perfectly clear that we cannot with any credibility start listing likely targets of an enemy whose plans we do not know.
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Schools, sewerage, burials and refuse collection are the most likely targets.
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Appeals have been made for auxiliary police and special constables to help in the protection of villages, estates, mines and other likely targets.
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Its likely targets are college students and universities.
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