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Yes, it is possible to utilize LaTeX within an ipywidget dropdown created on the Google colab platform.

Here is an example code snippet that creates a dropdown with LaTeX formatted options:

import ipywidgets as widgets

# Create a list of options with LaTeX formatting
options = [widgets.HTML(value=r'$\alpha$'), 
           widgets.HTML(value=r'$\beta$'), 
           widgets.HTML(value=r'$\gamma$')]

# Create the dropdown widget 
dropdown = widgets.Dropdown(options=options)

# Display the widget
dropdown

This code will create a dropdown widget with three options: $\alpha$, $\beta$, and $\gamma$, all formatted using LaTeX.

Note that the value attribute of each option is set to an HTML widget, which allows us to render LaTeX formatted text within the dropdown.