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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.
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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
How much of this was planned is unclear, but a subsequent scene in which Fielder calls the parents of the child actors to inform them of his new, fatherly involvement is another object lesson in the way that power can seep into even the most professedly intimate of nooks.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
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
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
How much of this was planned is unclear, but a subsequent scene in which Fielder calls the parents of the child actors to inform them of his new, fatherly involvement is another object lesson in the way that power can seep into even the most professedly intimate of nooks.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for professedly
Adverb
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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
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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
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And among the three alternating points of view is one possibly unhinged bookseller.—
Susan Coll
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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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
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That probably caught Giants fans off guard, but inside the Colts’ building?—
Dianna Russini,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Those guys are minutes from each other, probably seeing each other on a weekly, daily basis.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That leaves the Blue Jays with three impending free agents, all of whom could conceivably be on their way out.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Doha could conceivably seek HQ-22 or HQ-9B strategic systems from Beijing to bolster and diversify its air defenses.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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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
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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
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That did not happen, maybe thankfully.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Staub in the dark, here, but maybe the Buffs are just … soft?—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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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
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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
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Never mind that the consensus that the United States should have low taxes and stable money—the consensus of the economically prodigious nineteenth century—was manifestly shot to smithereens by the unbelievable policy developments of 1929-33.—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Professedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professedly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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