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In information theory, there's a reflected concept of a "typical set", which is the set of sequences of samples from a distribution whose probability (or probability density) is very close to the expected probability. If you draw a sequence of samples, you are overwhelmingly likely to get a typical outcome as opposed to, say, anything resembling the most likely outcome.

As a concrete example, if you have a coin that gets heads 99% of the time and you flip it 1M times, you are overwhelmingly likely to get around 10k tails, even though the individual sequences with many fewer tails are each far likelier than the typical sequences.