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
Our foreign policy is evidently for sale.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Oh, and home attendance ranked 28th of 30 teams, so evidently the product still wasn’t attractive enough.
—Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
But evidently these stories have stuck with me, too, achingly knotted into the threads holding my heart together.
—Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Even conservatives went after Bondi for evidently not knowing hate speech is protected by the First Amendment, or not caring.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 17 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for evidently
Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Oh, and home attendance ranked 28th of 30 teams, so evidently the product still wasn’t attractive enough.
—Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
But evidently these stories have stuck with me, too, achingly knotted into the threads holding my heart together.
—Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Even conservatives went after Bondi for evidently not knowing hate speech is protected by the First Amendment, or not caring.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 17 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for evidently
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evidently
Adverb
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Oweh was a player the team apparently did not plan on extending.—
Zak Keefer,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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Paying tribute to the classic design, Alessandro apparently wanted to mimic the Bialetti moka pot shape but in a modern-contemporary fashion.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The incident, which quickly dovetailed into a larger conversation about government and Hollywood censorship, was seemingly par for the course for Alonzo and her specials.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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For politicians, the legislation is a low-cost way to seemingly solve a bipartisan issue.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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But the thirty-seventh President looks like a model of restraint when compared with the forty-seventh, and his supposedly incendiary commentary anodyne by contrast to what emanates daily from the current occupant of the White House.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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Parton then got comical with a reference to a fake AI image being circulated of her being visited by a fellow country music superstar, supposedly in the hospital.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The country’s leaders, ostensibly engineers, got their calculations disastrously wrong and built too much of everything, including high-speed rail.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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The Republican who ostensibly champions liberty but justifies authoritarian impulses from the White House.—
John H Bolthouse,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Detroit's season officially ended in heartbreak with a touch of what could have been because this series probably should have been played in Michigan.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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What these clues ultimately add up to is unclear, as of the seven half-hours sent to critics, and probably irrelevant.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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More realistically, Belichick fires a bunch of his staff (though presumably not his two sons), does some sort of front-office restructuring and runs it back in 2026.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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In a series of clips (presumably shot by Rucker), Deahl sang and danced her heart out at a concert featuring Lady Gaga — one of her musical influences.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Evidently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evidently. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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