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I'm with Whitty on this one:
The sound of "It will rain, most likely" is ok to my ear; also, "It will most likely rain" sounds ok, too.
But "It will likely rain" sounds weird. I don't know that I've ever heard that construction.
"It is liable to rain" sounds old-fashioned.
Then there's my grandma Etta's, "I kin see black clouds in the element! Likely to rain today!" She's the only person I know who refers to the sky as the element.
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