as in apparently
to all outward appearances
a seemingly contented baby who was fast asleep in his crib
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Recent Examples of seemingly
The screen powered on, displaying a handsome young man wearing a button-down shirt, seemingly sitting in a home office.
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The couple has three daughters, one grandchild (and another on the way), and based on the video captured by a fan, seemingly a lot to celebrate with each other.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2025
With threats to higher education seemingly everywhere, institutions are increasingly considering a valuable idea most people learned in preschool — sharing.
—Derek Newton, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The ongoing, seemingly relentless AI integration, has introduced a subtle but significant risk: agency decay.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The couple has three daughters, one grandchild (and another on the way), and based on the video captured by a fan, seemingly a lot to celebrate with each other.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2025
With threats to higher education seemingly everywhere, institutions are increasingly considering a valuable idea most people learned in preschool — sharing.
—Derek Newton, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The ongoing, seemingly relentless AI integration, has introduced a subtle but significant risk: agency decay.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seemingly
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The White House briefing room was renovated that year, which is apparently when WHCA took over.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Apr. 2025
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Their initial attempt wasn’t smooth—the airline first rescheduled their Munich flight to Zurich due to apparently low bookings, then canceled it altogether due to an engine issue.—
Scott Campbell,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Apr. 2025
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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
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One meme showed a check for millions of dollars, ostensibly paid to Haddad by a criminal gang.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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And that’s while there’s ostensibly still a federal labor board to police these matters.—
Shaun Richman,
New York Daily News,
6 Apr. 2025
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The company has evidently been building toward this moment, with Lütke's memo serving as the official announcement that the transition period is over.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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In August, de Moraes increased the financial penalties and implemented a nationwide ban on X. Musk briefly circumvented the ban through Starlink, which provides internet service to many Brazilians, but he was evidently rattled.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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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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Red inflatable boats drive around the neighborhood on waterways above what presumably had been yards and streets.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
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That worthy goal has been raised like a hardy perennial at least since the birth of our nation, when presumably it was calculated with quill pens.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Seemingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seemingly. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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