predictably

adverb pre·dict·ably \ pri-ˈdik-tə-blē \

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Definition of predictably

1 : in a manner that can be predicted

works quickly and predictably

2 : as one could predict : as one would expect

predictably, the politicians howled

Recent Examples of predictably from the Web

As for this most recent increase, customers (predictably) are none too happy about it.

— chris morris, Fortune, "Starbucks Quietly Raises Prices—Again," 7 June 2018
And predictably, some people are getting stuck there.

— adi robertson, The Verge, "NBC’s new VR thriller Reverie is a schmaltzy take on techno-dystopia," 30 May 2018
After Twitter announced its new moderation policies Tuesday, a number of its users (predictably) latched onto the news as evidence of the social network's sinister efforts to silence free speech.

— louise matsakis, WIRED, "Twitter Will Begin Hiding All Tweets From Suspect Accounts," 15 May 2018
Well, Tia Freeman's jaw-dropping baby story checks both of those boxes and has predictably gone viral.

— korin miller, SELF, "This Woman Delivered Her Own Baby in a Hotel Room By Following YouTube Videos," 25 Apr. 2018
Now predictably, without knowing all or frankly, any of the facts, the media went absolutely insane.

— Fox News, "Hannity: Setting the record straight about Michael Cohen," 17 Apr. 2018
At which point, the Patriots fan base, which believes that ESPN, the NFL, the EPA and possibly the Bavarian Illuminati are in league to destroy the team, went predictably bananas.

— charles p. pierce, SI.com, "What Can and What Cannot Beat the Patriots," 10 Jan. 2018
This, predictably, infuriated the Mosse lawyers: In the 1950s, and again in the 1990s, after German reunification, German authorities established unequivocally that the Nazis had illegally confiscated the Palais and other Mosse properties.

— berthold steinhilber, Smithsonian, "The Lost Maidens of Berlin," 24 May 2018
Quite predictably, this re-ignited the same tiresome controversy over whether boys and girls belong in the same scout troop.

— betsy teter, Outside Online, "Op-Ed: Whose Scouts Are They?," 15 May 2018

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