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Recent Examples of manifestly
The reality is, that is not manifestly true.
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Lee Cowan, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
Many people pointed out how beautiful Jess is, how manifestly attractive, how good, how fun, how kind.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
This paternalistic screening is manifestly also a form of censorship, for censors are censors whether their motivations are noble or base.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
Overall in tennis, including the four majors, prize money amounts to only around a quarter of the revenues generated at the tournaments, which the PTPA argues is manifestly unfair — compared to about 50 percent in some leading team sports.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Calling them weak is manifestly true, but not great diplomacy.
—Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 13 Dec. 2025
This is most manifestly true for the Palestinian society in Gaza shattered by two years of war.
—Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2025
The same framework also imposes a duty to refuse orders that are manifestly unlawful—the kind any person of ordinary understanding would recognize as criminal.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
Ellen’s head is a manifestly miserable place to spend time even before she’s injured while working on The Baroness, a macabre occult film made by a gay Jewish man in the twilight of the Weimar Republic and rescued from the secret collection of a dead Nazi.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 29 Oct. 2025
Lee Cowan, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
Many people pointed out how beautiful Jess is, how manifestly attractive, how good, how fun, how kind.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
This paternalistic screening is manifestly also a form of censorship, for censors are censors whether their motivations are noble or base.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
Overall in tennis, including the four majors, prize money amounts to only around a quarter of the revenues generated at the tournaments, which the PTPA argues is manifestly unfair — compared to about 50 percent in some leading team sports.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Calling them weak is manifestly true, but not great diplomacy.
—Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 13 Dec. 2025
This is most manifestly true for the Palestinian society in Gaza shattered by two years of war.
—Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2025
The same framework also imposes a duty to refuse orders that are manifestly unlawful—the kind any person of ordinary understanding would recognize as criminal.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
Ellen’s head is a manifestly miserable place to spend time even before she’s injured while working on The Baroness, a macabre occult film made by a gay Jewish man in the twilight of the Weimar Republic and rescued from the secret collection of a dead Nazi.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manifestly
Adverb
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Collaborate thoughtfully, and document next steps clearly.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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Bauers clearly hit the base square in the middle, and the call was quickly overturned, leading to laughs from both managers, the Rays’ Kevin Cash and the Brewers’ Pat Murphy.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Markström, evidently unhappy at Shesterkin pushing Cotter, skated down the ice and asked Shesterkin to fight.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Zuck evidently can’t grow a beard, but Ezra Klein and Senator Chris Murphy have.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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So replacing these with new pipes will obviously improve water efficiency and be a benefit to the public.—
Charlie Lapastora,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Rose had collected art her whole life, cared a lot about her paintings, and was disturbed, obviously, by this fact that wasn’t a fact.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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There are few, if any, connections because of the defensive pressure from those opponents, but there was patently more space to work in.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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The myth of the lone, innate genius—aside from being patently untrue—does nothing to aid Austen here, who has long been justly studied and celebrated for her innumerable merits.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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If indeed comets are like cats, Comet MAPS appeared Manx-like but distinctly green, a fuzzball (as astronomers are wont to call a small, tailless—or nearly so—comet) in my image from the Celestron Origin.—
Tony Hoffman,
PC Magazine,
2 Apr. 2026
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Even a protein treatment applied to your natural hair deposits an almost imperceptible film atop the strands, rendering the texture distinctly different, thicker, and drier.—
Noel Cymone Walker,
StyleCaster,
1 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Such an arrest is plainly inconsistent with basic First Amendment principles.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
23 Mar. 2026
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The inference, plainly, is that is not the case at the moment.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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But aside from Ballard’s murky future, Indy’s roster moves this offseason haven’t felt as palpably urgent as Irsay-Gordon suggested.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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Both her grief and numbness are palpably captured by De Pue’s camera.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Even at an early age, apparently, the patient had a few small, smooth, normal patches of skin; some had stayed the same size, but others had grown and spread.—
Jerome Groopman,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Granville Suite, once military reception rooms, is named after Christine Granville, rumored lover of Ian Fleming and apparently Churchill’s favorite spy.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Manifestly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manifestly. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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