patently
Example Sentences
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Under U.S. military law, all orders “may be inferred to be lawful,” with an exception only for “patently illegal orders.”
Campbell’s said the comments about its food are “patently absurd,” noting that the chicken meat in its canned soups comes from USDA-approved suppliers, meets high-quality standards, and doesn’t contain antibiotics.
From Barron's
Wood stressed that any allegations that the United States is not in full compliance with the nonproliferation treaty “are just patently false.”
From Seattle Times
The organization also asked the school to create an action plan to show the lessons were “inaccurate, historically wrong and patently antisemitic,” Drenick said.
From Washington Post
Dianne Klein, UC Investments chief of staff, said the investment was a “fantastic deal” for the university and called the assertion that it was worsening the housing crisis “patently false.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
