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Recent Examples of plausibly
With consistent civilian and defense demand driving dual-use production, such yards could plausibly reach break-even in 5–7 years.
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Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
Stone was previously nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Lanthimos’s The Favourite alongside co-star Rachel Weisz in 2018, plausibly splitting the Favourite-leaning voters en route to a Regina King win that year.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
So begins a grand steeplechase that becomes the story of both The Secret Commonwealth and The Rose Field, which are so intertwined that they could plausibly have been published together as a single novel.
—Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
Kansas City could plausibly be 2-4 after facing Detroit this week.
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
The vagueness and disorientation are plausibly by design, meant to evoke the fracturing of Lisa’s sanity, perhaps.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
And yet the problems seem urgent; some studies have plausibly linked the increasing rates of teen depression and anxiety to the spread of social media.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened — or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood — Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
—Caitlin White, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Instead of being late to take down its tree, the mall can plausibly be seen as very prompt to put its Christmas tree up.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
Stone was previously nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Lanthimos’s The Favourite alongside co-star Rachel Weisz in 2018, plausibly splitting the Favourite-leaning voters en route to a Regina King win that year.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
So begins a grand steeplechase that becomes the story of both The Secret Commonwealth and The Rose Field, which are so intertwined that they could plausibly have been published together as a single novel.
—Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
Kansas City could plausibly be 2-4 after facing Detroit this week.
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
The vagueness and disorientation are plausibly by design, meant to evoke the fracturing of Lisa’s sanity, perhaps.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
And yet the problems seem urgent; some studies have plausibly linked the increasing rates of teen depression and anxiety to the spread of social media.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened — or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood — Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
—Caitlin White, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Instead of being late to take down its tree, the mall can plausibly be seen as very prompt to put its Christmas tree up.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plausibly
Adverb
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Jerusalem — Anyone who looked at the situation in Gaza on Tuesday might reasonably have concluded that the ceasefire had collapsed.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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While nearby property owners may reasonably view specific wind projects as too damaging to the land, climate activists assert that solutions require sacrifice.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Both are talented players who have produced at a high level, and both would conceivably fetch a great return on the trade market.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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There may been more sales (or, conceivably, some buying) in this year's third quarter.—
Alex Crippen,
CNBC,
25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Besides being one of the best ways to stay warm, puffer jackets are also unbelievably packable, much like this Eddie Bauer down jacket that has insulation for chilly days but can be folded or rolled to practically half its size.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Oct. 2025
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The key to detecting them, then, wasn’t to simply build a detector sensitive enough to see each individual neutrino; that would be a practically impossible task.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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From Snickers to Reese's to Twix, one of America's favorite indulgences is getting more expensive, as tariffs, inflation and high cocoa prices squeeze profit margins and customers' pocketbooks, possibly leading to fewer chocolate bars landing in trick-or-treat buckets this year.—
Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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Despite her busy Showgirl rollout — and possibly wedding planning — the singer has been present at many of Kelce’s home games this season.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2025
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But perhaps some of it had to do with precisely this feeling of poignancy that seeing me would have engendered in him.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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But the physical being would be transformed, and perhaps the soul, which didn’t go its separate way but was always a co-conspirator with the body.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Plausibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plausibly. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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