Or, as seemed more plausible, was he running some kind of scam?

Unilateralism might have seemed more plausible during the cold war.

It was an association that had never seemed very plausible.

To a casual reader, it would have seemed quite plausible.

But under the circumstances any explanation might have seemed plausible.

When construction ended in 1954, that promise still seemed plausible.

Given the circumstances, almost any action would have seemed plausible.

But at the time, no other explanation had seemed plausible.

Everything she said seemed plausible, but did that make it the truth?

For stretches of the first half, the lead was in hand and victory seemed plausible.