as in likely
by reasonable assumption
we would probably win that bet
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Recent Examples of probably
Read: The price of humiliating Nicolás Maduro Legal challenges are probably coming, because no precedent has established the legality of terminating a preceding administration’s TPS extension.
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Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
What was the most challenging year? Logistically challenging would probably be the year that the fire marshal shut us down.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Discovered less than a foot beneath the surface, where it was probably buried in a leather pouch that has since decayed, the cache was left in a region where Roman troops were known to have amassed before the invasion of Britain.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
Detectives working on the case eventually concluded that all the scam calls were probably coming from one person as the events and methods of operation were almost identical each time.
—Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025
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Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
What was the most challenging year? Logistically challenging would probably be the year that the fire marshal shut us down.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Discovered less than a foot beneath the surface, where it was probably buried in a leather pouch that has since decayed, the cache was left in a region where Roman troops were known to have amassed before the invasion of Britain.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
Detectives working on the case eventually concluded that all the scam calls were probably coming from one person as the events and methods of operation were almost identical each time.
—Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for probably
Adverb
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Doing so will likely induce compliance; Lebanon cannot afford to be cut off.—
Hanin Ghaddar,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Feb. 2025
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Of course, there will likely be a promotional price period to draw subscribers — for a little while, at least.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
4 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Meet Trump's pick for director of national intelligence Gabbard faces perhaps the most difficult route to confirmation of all of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks.—
Lucien Bruggeman,
ABC News,
30 Jan. 2025
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Around that time, perhaps realizing DeepSeek’s potential and amid the Chinese government’s regulatory crackdown on quantitative trading, Liang started to scale down High-Flyer to focus on the new firm.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
30 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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The return Miami gets for Butler is likely to be bridge assets that get Miami to the summer of 2026, when a potentially big free agency class might intersect with lots of Heat spending money and maybe one last whale hunt by Riley.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
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Here's what that means How comet Hale-Bopp can reveal the origins of life on Earth — and maybe beyond At the time, scientists identified potential patches of organic material by observing that the amount of light reflected from certain areas on Ceres' surface was higher in longer wavelengths.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Probably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/probably. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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