as in apparently
to all outward appearances
she was evidently dissatisfied with her job and abruptly quit
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Recent Examples of evidently
But Wallace didn’t become the nominee and Tommasi evidently spent the money on trying and failing to secure the Peck Road property.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
But evidently it was decided that this arrangement was not sufficient to improve Nissan's electric vehicle portfolio.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
The next year, fish samplers netted the endangered Gila topminnow in the river, which had evidently washed downstream from refugia in Mexico or in Sonoita Creek.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
But the retailer evidently didn't emerge on solid enough financial footing.
—Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2024
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
But evidently it was decided that this arrangement was not sufficient to improve Nissan's electric vehicle portfolio.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
The next year, fish samplers netted the endangered Gila topminnow in the river, which had evidently washed downstream from refugia in Mexico or in Sonoita Creek.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
But the retailer evidently didn't emerge on solid enough financial footing.
—Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2024
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In their five years of knowing each other, this is the first time that Johnny Mac has been invited over to Thadeus’s apartment—though that, apparently, had not been enough to move Thadeus’s housekeeping hand.Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
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Donald Trump and Mike Pence Shake Hands During First Interaction in Nearly 4 Years Pence also addressed his wife Karen, 68, apparently staring straight ahead and declining to acknowledge Trump and Melania in a seemingly tense moment that was caught on tape.Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 12 Jan. 2025
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The movie, which will have its European premiere at the fest, revolves around a young father whose hold on reality crumbles as a seemingly malign presence begins to stalk him following the death of his wife.Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
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Even as seemingly innocuous a ban as the one the FDA is now instituting could face legal challenges from manufacturers.Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Firing Daboll would have ripped down the supposedly collaborative curtain behind the Wizard of Oz.Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
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But supposedly, 99% of their government services are online, including procedures for setting up a business and filing all their taxes.Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
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Their agreeing to interfere came right after Trump spoke by phone with Alito, ostensibly about an applicant for an agency general counsel position that had been an Alito clerk.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
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December ostensibly marked a return to a more stable labor market after Southeast hurricanes and worker strikes hammered employment totals in October, leading to higher-than-normal payroll gains the following month.Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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Antar said that with the granite base, the sculpture probably weighs closer to 90 pounds.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Some four thousand people, my mother and I among them, filled Atlanta’s historic Fox Theatre, in September, to celebrate Jimmy Carter’s centenary with a night of music, which the thirty-ninth President probably loved more than any other.Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2025
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It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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They were presumably circulated, handled and sometimes redeposited.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Evidently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evidently. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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