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
  • Yet the 103-win Milwaukee Brewers and 98-win Tampa Bay Rays were the best teams in their respective leagues practically all season.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, were practically inseparable in their final years.
    — Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of practically
Adverb
  • Every business has to at least now consider, as standard risk management, how Musk could conceivably throttle vital Starlink service despite prior contractual agreements.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Former Purdue forward Trey Kaufman-Renn, a 6-9, 240-pound senior, has joined the roster and could conceivably be ready to face Bidunga on Wednesday despite limited practice time.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of conceivably
Adverb
  • That model assumes a reasonably stable relationship between labor input and useful output, but AI weakens that relationship.
    — Luis Aburto, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • All three show up in binoculars under a reasonably dark sky, while a small telescope starts to resolve them into individual stars.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of reasonably
Adverb
  • But can a single supplier, no matter how competent and experienced, possibly be relied upon to deliver such a critical part of both forces’ future warfighting capacity?
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Experts say the state-of-the-art Ion robotic bronchoscopy would have indicated whether the tumor was malignant and possibly whether cancer had spread to the lymph nodes.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of possibly
Adverb
  • More plausibly, CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, HPC and quantum resources will coexist, selected driven by workload economics and suitability.
    — Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Fortunately for Jackson, Mainers’ energy bills are expected to soar in the campaign’s final weeks, plausibly increasing voters’ appetite for change in the process.
    — Eric Levitz, Vox, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of plausibly
Adverb
  • The curse, perhaps, of writing something so timeless is that everything around it pales in comparison.
    — Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The death of software has been greatly exaggerated, said Orlando Bravo, who has more riding on its comeback than perhaps anybody in the world.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of perhaps
Adverb
  • An average of four recent polls puts the two camps at roughly 50 and 53 seats, respectively, leaving Arab parties and smaller factions potentially pivotal.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Experts worry federal law enforcement could potentially use those false claims — or others generated this year — as pretext to try to seize ballots during the counting period, or interfere in the process in some other way.
    — Miles Parks, NPR, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of potentially
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