as in seemingly
to all outward appearances
the lake's putatively pristine water is actually crawling with microorganisms that can wreak havoc with your gastrointestinal system
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Adverb
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Edwards missed the second frame after exiting the floor with a towel pressed against his face after seemingly getting poked in the eye.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2025 -
The ongoing, seemingly relentless AI integration, has introduced a subtle but significant risk: agency decay.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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While the company plans to focus on growing its market share, specifically increasing its 10% share of the $10 billion bridal jewelry market and mid-single-digit share of the over $50 billion fashion jewelry market, Signet apparently couldn’t do that in 2024.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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He was apparently seen purchasing two bags of cement, a construction bucket, a box of heavy-duty trash bags, Clorox disinfectant spray and insect repellent with cash at a nearby Home Depot.—
Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Unlike in dictatorships, this tends to involve not overt methods like book burning but quieter techniques such as co-opting media company shareholders to slant their coverage or using limited censorship supposedly designed to fight extremism or child pornography.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Apr. 2025
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President Trump has cited this supposedly inexplicable trend.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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As an ostensibly neutral arbitrator who is subject to the same constraints as judges, such conversations by a PURA commissioner are considered improper.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
26 Mar. 2025
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This week’s episode of ABC’s The Rookie — an homage of sorts to the movie Speed — was ostensibly about the hijacking of a city bus by bomb-toting baddies seeking a kajillion-dollar ransom.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
26 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Promoting Tsunoda to the main squad seemed an obvious fix to the Perez problem, but Red Bull bosses Christian Horner and Helmut Marko evidently believed otherwise.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
26 Mar. 2025
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But last year, wielding power was evidently a drag on leaders’ popularity, for reasons apparently not rooted in the specifics of the politics of their countries.—
Moisés Naím,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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But ‘George & Tammy’ had been a hit, and Showtime had presumably profited handsomely from Georgette’s breach.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2025
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The Brave engine under the hood has implications for individuals, organizations, or companies that might want to block Claude from accessing their sites since, presumably, Brave's web crawler is doing the web indexing.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Many of the researchers seem pretty sure that the next generation of A.I. systems, which are probably due later this year or early next, will be decisive.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2025
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Political discourse and curated most-engaging content that makes it out of the Darwinian struggle to be seen on the multi-billion-personal social network is probably more likely to grab the average person’s attention over Uncle Bob showing off his new lawnmower.—
John Koetsier,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Another new chapter is upon you, Virgo, and this one is likely tied to wealth creation.—
Kyle Thomas,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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The rain will be slow to clear through the Northeast, likely lingering along the coast until early to mid-afternoon on Monday.—
Daniel Peck,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Putatively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/putatively. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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