supposedly
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Never predict anything, especially the future, as Casey Stengel supposedly said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 12, 2026
Anyone who has spent any time in the digital agora will know the chilling feeling of seeing some supposedly secret thing about yourself suddenly reflected in a targeted advertisement.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
Consumer advocates have been calling for something similar to IRS Direct File for decades, pointing with exasperation to supposedly forward-thinking European countries like the Netherlands, where tax filing is automatic and painless.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
At the rate things are heating up on Earth, threatening to fry us alive sooner than later, this scheme could supposedly reverse or slow the damage we’ve done.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
In 1937, when Lilya was sixteen, her father, Vladimir Litvyak, was arrested, for crimes he’d supposedly committed against the Communist Party.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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