How to Use supposedly in a Sentence
supposedly
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At the top of the page, a counter supposedly shows the dwindling number of iPhones still available.
— Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023 -
All seems well as Ruby has supposedly put an end to the deaths.
— Matt Minton, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024 -
They had supposedly been submerged in the lake for six months.
— Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2024 -
The Bravo host didn't carefully study the email address that supposedly was from the bank, which could have been a clue to the fraud.
— Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024 -
None of this has much to do with Matthew Inman’s card game of the same title, which this show is supposedly adapting.
— Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2024 -
The return of the festival was supposedly smaller than in the past.
— Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2023 -
The rap squat came from prison subculture and was first called the prison pose, supposedly a crouch meant to look menacing.
— Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023 -
So why don’t these millions of supposedly self-loathing motorists make the jump?
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023 -
In their opinion, some kits that were supposedly for older kids could’ve been used by younger kids as well.
— Julia Pelly, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023 -
Production will supposedly take place in the first half of 2025.
— Lexi Carson, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024 -
In the clip, Cuoco attempts to replicate a supposedly easy-to-do style while Greenberg films her in the mirror.
— Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023 -
Biden has not used the tools supposedly available to compel Israel to stand down.
— Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024 -
In the 1930s, entrepreneur Buck Brady opened a nightclub on the land called the Primrose Club, which was supposedly taken over and run by the mob.
— Killian Baarlaer, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2024 -
Three days before the event, the fire extinguishers were taken out of the ward by order of the head of the prison system, supposedly to be refilled.
— Karl Vick, TIME, 6 Oct. 2023 -
The user that supposedly posted the news on X, @GlobalPressCorp, is not an active account.
— Isabel C. Morales, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024 -
Some of the fault for that is due to the decision to add an onstage crew, supposedly filming a documentary about the show and whose fierce close-up work is splashed on the screen.
— David Benedict, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Combs supposedly emerged nude and began to both vaginally and anally rape her, as Graves screamed in pain.
— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024 -
There was a rumor about a person in the neighborhood who supposedly knew the identity of the shooter.
— Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024 -
The most persistent myth about the movie involves a Munchkin actor who supposedly died by suicide on set.
— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024 -
This crossbow was supposedly seen in police body cam footage on the night of the murders, according to the seller, ABC4 reports.
— Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023 -
This is a party that supposedly stands for fair elections?
— Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 27 July 2024 -
After that, the map includes states that supposedly have tea lovers of both persuasions – sweet tea drinkers and those who drink unsweetened iced tea.
— Leah Ingram, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024 -
And the 7000-series aluminum supposedly holds an edge tune just as well as steel and is just as easy (if not easier) to sharpen and maintain.
— Cameron Martindell, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2024 -
Part of the brothers' motivation for killing their parents was to free Erik from the abuse, which Kitty supposedly knew about and did nothing to stop.
— Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024 -
Miko goes to New York for the summer, supposedly for work, and Ben sets about trying to sleep with a blonde, any blonde, feigning interest in the lives of several prospects.
— Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023 -
Since the series was announced in 2021, Glover has released Atlanta’s third and fourth seasons, which will supposedly be its last.
— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023 -
Scott, the old pro, knows how to give these scenes a vicious vitality that overcomes any thoughts about how the Romans supposedly got live sharks in the water.
— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024 -
Victoria’s Secret, meanwhile, was meant for the woman who that kind of guy supposedly wanted to marry, or, at the very least, jerk off to.
— Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022 -
Firing Daboll would have ripped down the supposedly collaborative curtain behind the Wizard of Oz.
— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025 -
Nevertheless, she’s missed the connection slated to take her farther west, over the mountains to a place called Crooks Springs, where her husband is supposedly living, but possibly not waiting.
— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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