presumedly

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Adverb
  • That probably caught Giants fans off guard, but inside the Colts’ building?
    Dianna Russini, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Those guys are minutes from each other, probably seeing each other on a weekly, daily basis.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Similar American drone sales to the UAE and Qatar will likely proceed once Washington reinterprets its obligations under that 1987 treaty, and will probably exceed the number China has sold to the region to date.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The study also claims that the ASW system could reduce a submarine’s chance of escape to just 5 percent, meaning only one in 20 would likely evade detection and attack.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Hundreds of police responded to the shooting, which included a student allegedly wielding a handgun, Kelley said in a news briefing.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Routh allegedly fled the scene but was later arrested by a local sheriff's office on a nearby interstate.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The subcommittee heard their statements as part of an examination of a purportedly secret UFO retrieval program managed by the Pentagon.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Perlstein and Vergato billed the data management company for services purportedly done by a shell company created by Vergato.
    Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • And among the three alternating points of view is one possibly unhinged bookseller.
    Susan Coll September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Tony & Ziva viewers possibly predict that a child’s bed-wetting would be the catalyst for the couple’s June 2020 engagement?
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Her site, which grew out of a blog about motherhood and home décor, had become perhaps the most popular chronicler of Kennedy’s rise, offering half a million Substack followers an inside look at the Secretary’s new life in the upper echelons of the American right.
    Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • London time, perhaps reflecting the fact that credit rating downgrades were expected in the days after the collapse of former Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's government on Monday following a confidence vote.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Al Jazeera employees even reportedly work with the terrorist group to identify protesters.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The fact that Robertson reportedly asked for team assistance to pursue no-show endorsement deals at that time, only to find them later with Aspiration during Leonard’s Clippers tenure, sets the kind of backdrop that only hurts their case at the moment.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Presumedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presumedly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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