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supposedly

adverb as in seemingly

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Wittingly or not, Gaines seems to understand that her ability to play the “victim” of these supposedly demonic trans forces depends on presenting herself as girlish.

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So why not for Jews in Britain, who face persecution, prejudice and fear in a supposedly civilized democracy?

You know how the fabulous refurbishment of the White House, to include the greatest ballroom ever, will supposedly have “zero cost” to us taxpayers?

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In 2002, in perhaps one of the most ignominious episodes, the recycling center was dismantling Navy artillery shells — that were supposedly inert — when one exploded and a chunk of metal launched onto Jordan High’s campus.

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As she astutely points out, it goes unmentioned in most of the supposedly authoritative cookbooks theoretically meant to tell Egyptian women the proper way to cook for the nation’s benefit.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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