Therefore, some extremely low-probability events will take place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: The Worldchanging Power of International Terror Klutzes] Reference

This is a low-probability threat, but one we need to be ready for.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2001] Reference

This is a very low-probability event that is having huge consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2008] Reference

What were the low-probability, high-consequence failure possibilities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The rescue] Reference

High-impact, low-probability events Black Swans are by nature unpredictable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading The Black Swan — Climb to the Stars] Reference

Good security isn't a matter of preventing extremely low-probability events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: The Worldchanging Power of International Terror Klutzes] Reference

Remember: A low-probability event plus a high-loss outcome = cause for concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [RJ Eskow: The Meaning of Swine Flu, the Universe, and Everything] Reference

"There was virtually nobody who saw that low-probability event as a possibility.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rubin, Under Fire, Defends His Role at Citi] Reference

The idea is that we should worry a lot about catastrophic low-probability events.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Quick Note on Sunstein and the Precautionary Principle] Reference

Obviously, at the on-set of this search, that's an extremely low-probability area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2005] Reference

Selfish individuals can refuse to buy insurance against severe low-probability events.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Closer Look at Adverse Selection and Mandatory Insurance, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Some low-probability risks are sometimes worth tolerating even in the case of children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Richard Thaler Responds to Critics of Libertarian Paternalism] Reference

A collapse of the thermohaline circulation is a low-probability, but high-impact event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

HARRIS: I consider it such a low-probability event that I — WARREN: A low probability?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God Debate] Reference

These are all "low-probability musical events" that surprise and startle us, Huron said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mausfallensprüchlein] Reference

First, it is very hard for anyone to be rewarded for preventing a low-probability disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the oil spill to the financial crisis, why we don't plan for the worst] Reference

Insurers say they are experts at managing just this sort of high-severity, low-probability risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beware of Fannie's Help] Reference

If health insurance were really insurance, it would cover only low-probability, high-cost events.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Health Insurance and the Public Plan: Where’s The Beef?] Reference

I mean, we're talking about a huge ridge where, the sheriff said, this was a low-probability area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2005] Reference

The climate changes that are the most difficult to project are low-probability, high-impact events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Use and evaluation of the ACIA forest and agriculture scenarios] Reference

He said America now had to consider a new type of threat, a “low-probability high-impact event.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should Americans Allow 9/11 and the Perceived Threat from al Qaeda to Dictate Our Future?] Reference

The odds of three such low-probability events happening so close to each other was almost microscopic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger MacBride]

Imagine a very tiny risk of an utterly calamitous outcome — a low-probability, high-cost catastrophe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technological Nightmares (Lecture)~ Six Concerns] Reference

This is because they often shift low-probability, but extremely expensive, risks off of private industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Government loan, loan guarantee, and insurance programs] Reference

Or we could buy insurance from a company that refuses to cover such high-cost, low-probability treatments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arnold on Health Insurance, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

• Policy makers tend to consider worst-case scenarios for climate disruption to be low-probability events.    From Wordnik.com.  [William S. Becker: Risky Business] Reference

There are real low-probability climate outcomes in which things spiral totally out of control and destroy the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Limits to Growth] Reference

It has long been asserted that nuclear reactor accidents are the epitome of low-probability but high-consequence risks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Safety of nuclear power reactors] Reference

"It's always been a high-impact, low-probability scenario," said Tim Evans, an energy analyst at Citigroup in New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crude Falls on OPEC Anxiety] Reference

Mixed — one claimant with certain rights plus many others with low-probability claims, like patent trolls = ambiguous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Human beings in general have a tendency to disregard or undervalue low-probability events that could have severe adverse consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mortgage Professor: Five inescapable truths about financial disasters] Reference

At which point other low-probability events on a rather more comprehensible time scale suddenly don't seem quite as difficult to believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intelligent Design Inferences in Children] Reference

These are low-probability events with high consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Car Advice | News Blog] Reference

Allen called that possibility a "low-probability event.".    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference

You can add into the mix some low-probability, yet high - impact, events.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

Hey, small detail. the low-probability scenarios outlined by Mona in this week's SEL column.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traffick] Reference