Examples of presumably in a Sentence
presumably he's going on the trip for business reasons, but we have our doubts
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And that’s presumably where all of their interrogations happen.
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Jayme Moye, Outside, 25 Nov. 2025
Reid’s novel, presumably the same as the series, takes place over seven years, beginning when Shane and Ilya are teenagers and taking them into their mid-20s.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025
There is no physical torture in this place, called Limbo, and the conversation is presumably exceptional.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
There are some 20,000 books in Morgan’s collection, but Anke Gowda, a former worker in a Karnataka, India sugar plant, amassed nearly two-million books, mostly titles decommissioned by public libraries and given away for free (there is presumably no Medieval Book of Hours amongst the collection).
—Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
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Jayme Moye, Outside, 25 Nov. 2025
Reid’s novel, presumably the same as the series, takes place over seven years, beginning when Shane and Ilya are teenagers and taking them into their mid-20s.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025
There is no physical torture in this place, called Limbo, and the conversation is presumably exceptional.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
There are some 20,000 books in Morgan’s collection, but Anke Gowda, a former worker in a Karnataka, India sugar plant, amassed nearly two-million books, mostly titles decommissioned by public libraries and given away for free (there is presumably no Medieval Book of Hours amongst the collection).
—Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Presumably.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/presumably. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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presumably
adverb
pre·sum·ably
pri-ˈzü-mə-blē 
: one would presume : it seems likely : probably
presumably he'll come later
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