PROFESSEDLY Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

professedly

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Definition of professedly

as in perhaps

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Recent Examples of professedly In this relationship comedy, a man (Kyle Marvin) seeks a little help from his friends after his wife (Adria Arjona) asks for a divorce, only to throw the friends’ (Dakota Johnson, Michael Angelo Covino) professedly open marriage into disarray in the process. — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025 They are professedly based on hunches that the enemy will attack, occupy or conquer at some future time unless the enemy is obliterated. — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2025 But imagine if right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán or another professedly illiberal leader took similar steps. — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 18 Feb. 2022 In any prior year, that number would be noteworthy for the professedly liberal yet overwhelmingly white industry. — Lee Seymour, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022 Early modern Europe had the daily pageant of court society, with its graceful, witty, professedly nonchalant aristocrats who had every muscle under tight control and every piece of clothing precisely arranged. — David A. Bell, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021

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San Francisco must now fight the effects of trying to reset those body clocks back to Pacific Time ahead of the final 16 games, and perhaps that’s Los Angeles’ edge in never changing at all.

— Nate Atkins, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
At another point, though, a lady asks -- perhaps a bit too flippantly -- what's so special about Ten House.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of perhaps

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Bowman should move him before the start of 2026-27, possibly in a deal for a player like Hyry, who would have more utility on Edmonton’s roster.

— Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The slate includes a game in Germany, Spain and France — giving fans more European choices and possibly impacting London demand.

— Ken Maguire, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of possibly

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Eddie Hall, probably the UK’s most famous strongman, won the World’s Strongest Man title in 2017 and was the first to deadlift 500kg.

— Rob Tanner, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
For example, everyone on the boat and probably innocent citizens in Dubrovnik can tell that Kat and Cooper are still an item.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of probably

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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

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Such a result would likely create barriers to Trump's legislative agenda and send a signal about public opinion on the president's policy mix throughout his second presidential term.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
More likely she was hooked by the subliminal stirrings and emotional undertow of the music.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of likely

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After an offseason of bad vibes, Petrino’s offensive scheme paves the way for a respectable season, bowl bid and maybe a win that provides a higher high than the opening drive of the Bill Belichick era in 2025.

— The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
So not much is going to change, just a different voice in my ear and maybe just a different diagram on the play sheet.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of maybe

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And in North Carolina, a police officer was charged with unlawfully accessing computers after allegedly using her department’s license plate reader system to look up the vehicle of her boyfriend’s ex-wife 31 times, including twice while off duty.

— Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
These professors incorporate allegedly responsible uses of GenAI into assignments, such as telling their students to upload course documents into an LLM and asking it to generate potential test questions.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

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