as in apparently
to all outward appearances
a seemingly contented baby who was fast asleep in his crib
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Recent Examples of seemingly
The seemingly simple act of asking questions can bring forth significant change.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
The conclusion drawn by Finch and seemingly every player up and down the roster was that while some teams don’t require a traditional floor general, Minnesota does.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 18 May 2026
The last moment of the finale finds Jamie and Claire, both seemingly dead on the mountain, open their eyes and take a breath.
—Reshma Gopaldas, IndieWire, 17 May 2026
For a fleeting moment two years ago, the Vancouver Canucks seemingly had it all with a suddenly rising team finally clicking around its growing elite core.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 11 May 2026
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
The conclusion drawn by Finch and seemingly every player up and down the roster was that while some teams don’t require a traditional floor general, Minnesota does.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 18 May 2026
The last moment of the finale finds Jamie and Claire, both seemingly dead on the mountain, open their eyes and take a breath.
—Reshma Gopaldas, IndieWire, 17 May 2026
For a fleeting moment two years ago, the Vancouver Canucks seemingly had it all with a suddenly rising team finally clicking around its growing elite core.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 11 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seemingly
Adverb
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The ham, apparently, is not the only thing worth exporting from that region.—
Gabriel Alin Zainescu,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Though, there is no archival footage of Moulin’s bloody crucible, and Nemes apparently had some interest in filming that.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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Every generous gesture, every supposedly respectful question, every delicate expression of complete fixation becomes quietly infected by the growing understanding that Cole sees Māori humanity itself as something ornamental.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
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Even the artists whose work all this machinery is supposedly serving no longer have a reliable way to know what real audiences actually want, since whatever feedback reaches them may already have passed through the same apparatus built to distort that feedback in the first place.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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Global disaster shadowed this year’s Witten Days for New Chamber Music, an ostensibly insular contemporary-music festival that takes place each spring in the Ruhr Valley, in Germany.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Not to mention that, in the cabin, the only person doing the dishes and rinsing out everyone’s beer cans for the recycling was the ostensibly famous lead singer—the only woman, natch.—
Dan Kois,
Pitchfork,
17 May 2026
Adverb
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Far From the Tree, evidently likes to keep her dad active.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
14 May 2026
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Plus, evidently there is no crime or corruption problem in Florida so Uthmeier has lots of free time to meddle in how sports leagues dare align on the side of equal opportunity.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
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Some portion of eligible people are probably discouraged from applying at all, believing the lottery system to be rigged or pointless.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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The Chargers’ last game was a playoff loss to Vrabel’s Patriots, so nothing short of an edict from the NFL probably would have stopped the franchise’s social media team from referencing the Vrabel-Russini controversy.—
Senior Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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Netanyahu, presumably, is hoping for just such a stalemate.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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In that release, MCSO included photos of bones and skulls, presumably of deceased bison, and presumably taken on the Lay Valley property.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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“Seemingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seemingly. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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