imaginably

adverb

as in practically

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for imaginably
  1. practically
  2. conceivably
  3. reasonably
  4. possibly
  5. plausibly
  6. perhaps
  7. potentially
Adverb
  • Wide receiver Roc Taylor caught a TD pass practically off a Jacksonville defender’s helmet.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2026
  • To date, astronomers have found more than 6,300 of these alien worlds orbiting other stars, with new entrants to our exoplanetary catalogs arriving practically every day.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of practically
Adverb
  • Democrats will have a difficult time flipping the Senate, where Republicans hold a three-seat majority, but could conceivably do so in a blue wave year.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Conceivably, Bessent could be right; conceivably, Warsh could be right.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of conceivably
Adverb
  • For years, America's been in the chokehold of unnecessarily oversized pickup trucks, but recent announcements of new vehicles show that common sense – and more reasonably proportioned utes – may soon prevail.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2026
  • One may reasonably surmise that the city’s corporation counsel is weighing whether Bally’s contract interpretations need to be decided by a judge.
    — Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of reasonably
Adverb
  • That includes clarity about a roughly $60,000 payment to an entity the WPBL says is owned by Stein and possibly his wife, Shauna Stein.
    — Jay Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The Roseville Road station planning project specifically aims to evaluate ways to improve access to the station, possibly by reopening and improving the Grand Avenue bridge.
    — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of possibly
Adverb
  • Zhang built and launched Cara on a shoestring as a place where artists could share work in an environment where no consent could plausibly be implied.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • This reading may be plausibly explained by the winter weather and by the effects of a catastrophic spinal-cord injury.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of plausibly
Adverb
  • People leave behind scent that can last 10 to 15 days, perhaps longer than that.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026
  • If Pangram’s tools are accurate, 260 out of 310 people who published guest articles in the NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post did it entirely with their own brains (or perhaps the brains of an underling).
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of perhaps
Adverb
  • If the model works, Hund says Rare Ventures will expand to include more diseases and potentially fund more treatments.
    — Brad Quick, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • But the war’s unintended consequences have spread far beyond the Middle East, affecting global security, diminishing America’s global standing, and potentially providing its adversaries with an opportunity to expand their influence.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of potentially
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“Imaginably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imaginably. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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