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Recent Examples of professedly
That explains the ludicrous decision this month of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in TikTok Inc. v. Garland to uphold Congress’ ban on TikTok, a social media platform, professedly to protect us from Chinese conquest or control.
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Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
The world-famous aviator, through the America First Committee, professedly opposed U.S. involvement as a fool’s errand that would foster dictatorship at home.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
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
Applebaum writes, professedly, about the ideological currents of elite discourse, not the economic anxiety of lower-middle-class Americans, Brits, or Poles.
—Jackson Lears, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
The world-famous aviator, through the America First Committee, professedly opposed U.S. involvement as a fool’s errand that would foster dictatorship at home.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
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
Applebaum writes, professedly, about the ideological currents of elite discourse, not the economic anxiety of lower-middle-class Americans, Brits, or Poles.
—Jackson Lears, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for professedly
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 budget will be discussed and possibly adopted at the board’s regular Feb. 12 meeting, and an additional budget adoption meeting will be scheduled for Feb. 26 if needed, so the budget can be forwarded to the county by March 1.—
Thomas Goodwin Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Jan. 2025
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But easier rules are on the horizon instead, possibly raising risks for America's financial system.—
Felix Salmon,
Axios,
30 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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Oaks are probably our best types locally, followed by pecans.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2025
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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
Adverb
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Scarier still, the court might conceivably do this.—
Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
30 Jan. 2025
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Differences in lung size or hemoglobin levels are invisible to us; differences in muscle mass could conceivably be because boys are encouraged to work out more.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
30 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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The think tank said Canadian production and investment would likely suffer although government support in Ottawa could soften the blow with financial support.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Any effort by the Trump administration to deport incarcerated US nationals to another country would likely face significant legal pushback.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
4 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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And these kinds of difficult conversations may have to continue for months—maybe years.—
Jonaki Mehta,
NPR,
30 Jan. 2025
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But maybe a different dream of harmony, a literal-minded, utilitarian righteousness, an easy, almost evangelical can-do determination to make everything right?—
Robert Pinsky,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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Two of the skiers reportedly fell 500 feet, while another was uninjured.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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Receiver Jeremiah Smith was reportedly offered an NIL deal worth more than $4.5 million to enter the transfer portal to leave Ohio State.—
Matt Murschel,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Jan. 2025
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