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
The 32-time Grammy winner supposedly donated $4 million to Harris’ campaign in its first days this summer.
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
Chan was surprised to discover that her boyfriend frequently sends GIFs, a practice foreign to her but supposedly more common among younger millennials.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Bungie recently acknowledged the existence of arguably the worst bug in Destiny 2’s entire history, the revelation that for years now, loot drops have been bugged to make certain perk combinations close to impossible to get, when all combinations were supposedly supposed to be weighted equally.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Ives’s legendary status initially rested on his reputation as a maverick pioneer who supposedly had beaten Schoenberg in the race to the atonal pole.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
Chan was surprised to discover that her boyfriend frequently sends GIFs, a practice foreign to her but supposedly more common among younger millennials.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Bungie recently acknowledged the existence of arguably the worst bug in Destiny 2’s entire history, the revelation that for years now, loot drops have been bugged to make certain perk combinations close to impossible to get, when all combinations were supposedly supposed to be weighted equally.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Ives’s legendary status initially rested on his reputation as a maverick pioneer who supposedly had beaten Schoenberg in the race to the atonal pole.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Novak Djokovic will skip the ATP Finals in Turin, Italy and apparently look forward to 2025.Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The man fended off multiple attempts by the officers to grab his wrists and one attempt to put handcuffs on his right wrist before one of the officers started striking him, apparently with a closed fist, and then used a stun gun at least three times, the body camera video shows.Dennis Romero, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Heading into the second half of a season where seemingly nothing has gone right, the 49ers are doubling down.Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Wisconsin polling locations received non-credible bomb threats on Tuesday that seemingly originated from Russian email domains, Caroline Clancy, public affairs officer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Milwaukee, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
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But any law that would overturn the 2015 ruling would ostensibly overturn the 2013 ruling too.Kate Sosin, Them, 5 Nov. 2024
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The result would be reported numbers that were ostensibly compare across companies but really wouldn’t be due to different choices in how to measure a specific data item.Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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His good friend, director Sacha Gervasi, and podcast host Rich Roll evidently think so.Peter White, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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Some stations evidently weren’t happy about running the ad.Mia Sato, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
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In the last few days, the intelligence agencies have issued further public notifications that—presumably as part of the same scheme—Russia was behind bogus videos falsely depicting someone in Pennsylvania ripping up ballots and Haitians illegally voting in Georgia.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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After all, most classes have nothing to do with elections, so presumably the content of most lectures is immune to whatever happens today.Abigail Anthony, National Review, 5 Nov. 2024
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Loading your audio article Of all the overseas leaders avidly watching the U.S. election results, the two happiest were probably Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2024
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If these workers are deported, the food industry will probably have great difficulty replacing them.Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Supposedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supposedly. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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