as in apparently
to all outward appearances
she's supposedly too sick to come—or so she says
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Recent Examples of supposedly
Elena wanted to find other girls who play sports that are supposedly just for boys.
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Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2025
Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live and the man most single-handedly responsible for O’Brien’s stardom, supposedly hated it.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
The bets supposedly involved basketball games and horse races.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
This supposedly stands for 23 de Enero, a Caracas neighborhood known for crime.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
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Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2025
Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live and the man most single-handedly responsible for O’Brien’s stardom, supposedly hated it.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
The bets supposedly involved basketball games and horse races.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
This supposedly stands for 23 de Enero, a Caracas neighborhood known for crime.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supposedly
Adverb
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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
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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
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
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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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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
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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
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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Many Republicans evidently still believe Trump will reduce the annual inflation rate to zero.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
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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With his eyes presumably on that prize, Newsom is distancing himself as much as possible from the progressive wing of his party, and from any unpopular positions that his political allies might have adopted in the past decade.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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The ocean is probably our largest possible carbon sink.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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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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“Supposedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supposedly. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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