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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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While nearby property owners may reasonably view specific wind projects as too damaging to the land, climate activists assert that solutions require sacrifice.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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This is bloody and chaotic, and reasonably interesting.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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That could conceivably be Leeds.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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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
Adverb
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But the man who caught her eye in the end was practically a stranger.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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While other Super Tuscans are practically household names among wine collectors, Ca’Marcanda’s flagship blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, Camarcanda (without the apostrophe), seems to fly under the radar.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
2 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Second, the large amplitudes of the gravitational waves needed to generate the events that Weber was claiming a detection of would provide more energy than could possibly cosmically exist in any-and-all forms of radiation combined; the Universe as a whole ruled his interpretation out.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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Boston Dynamics couples perception (IMUs, cameras, possibly LiDAR) with these controllers to enable rapid reflexive responses.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The 36-year-old's contributions to the Dodgers becoming baseball's first back-to-back champions in a quarter-century likely won't be forgotten for a long time, and perhaps during contract negotiations, will be a present reminder.—
Gabe Smallson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Nov. 2025
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The effects were perhaps best seen in New Jersey, a state with a Hispanic population of nearly 22%, when counties with large Latino populations moved to the left following a rightward shift in 2024.—
Halle Troadec,
ABC News,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Plausibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plausibly. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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