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
More will be revealed once the dataset comes back online, supposedly within the next few days.
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Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
The consortium of investors supposedly joining Musk includes his startup xAI, and longtime investors in his other businesses, including Baron Capital Group, Valor, Atreides, Vy Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, and an investment vehicle led by Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel.
—Kate Rooney, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
His adult son supposedly refuses to see his father anywhere but his ex’s house.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025
There is lots of other speculation, including, famously, by President Trump, who blamed the Federal Aviation Administration for supposedly hiring incompetents, under a diversity-equity-and-inclusion policy.
—Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
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Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
The consortium of investors supposedly joining Musk includes his startup xAI, and longtime investors in his other businesses, including Baron Capital Group, Valor, Atreides, Vy Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, and an investment vehicle led by Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel.
—Kate Rooney, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
His adult son supposedly refuses to see his father anywhere but his ex’s house.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025
There is lots of other speculation, including, famously, by President Trump, who blamed the Federal Aviation Administration for supposedly hiring incompetents, under a diversity-equity-and-inclusion policy.
—Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supposedly
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The versatile Chestnut, 56, leads with intellect, charm and six-pack abs as Dr. John Watson, the beloved colleague of the apparently deceased Sherlock Holmes, in CBS' modern series.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Leslie Bibb is Kate, a Texas housewife apparently married to a tycoon.—
Noel Murray,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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While there are some situation-specific factors that have colored the past couple of seasons, like Swift's pop-cultural presence and seemingly every commercial break featuring K.C., there's also a general human impulse to support the underdog, even if that may seem counterproductive.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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For Bulls fans seemingly stuck in a time loop, not so much.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Adames also stopped by the Arizona complex after signing his record-setting seven-year, $182 million contract, ostensibly to check out the Giants’ facilities and scope out houses in the Scottsdale area.—
Andrew Baggarly,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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While the premise is ostensibly a tour through the different eras of New York City, the real purpose was to tour the different eras of SNL casts through this big, brassy prism.—
Joe Berkowitz,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2025
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But Springer played sparingly when the Celtics had their entire core rotation available, and the team evidently determined the financial benefits of trading him outweighed his value as a depth/developmental piece.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
6 Feb. 2025
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The property up for sale includes the ground-floor restaurant and kitchen — including, evidently, all appliances and decor — plus a private event space, offices and an additional 10,000 or so square feet of basement space.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
5 Feb. 2025
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Six-year-old Louis and nine-year-old Charlotte's portraits presumably depict Kate, from the shoulders up.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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Now Quentin and his merry band of murderous gays are dead by her hand, presumably leaving Greg to enjoy an undivided inheritance of $500 million.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
17 Feb. 2025
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The origin story of Ramona at Midlife probably dates back to our summer pilgrimages to Detroit.—
SPIN Contributor,
SPIN,
11 Feb. 2025
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The recent fires in Southern California probably have also damped the mood in Hollywood, which was already dour because of an ongoing financial retrenchment.—
Samantha Masunaga,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Supposedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supposedly. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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