evidently
Americanadverb
adverb
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without question; clearly; undoubtedly
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to all appearances; apparently
they are evidently related
Related Words
See clearly.
Etymology
Origin of evidently
Example Sentences
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One editor described Kate as “twelve years of age and evidently has no more conception of the rapping than a canary bird.”
From Literature
The company evidently has more in the works, but its name is most often in the news in relation to its blockbuster cancer drug, Keytruda.
From Barron's
Now we have the vanishing of Nancy Guthrie, the octogenarian mother of a TV news personality, evidently carried off from her Arizona home into … a void.
From Los Angeles Times
This evidently isn’t the first time he has been careless about a matter that touches her soul.
Chip evidently forgot that he was too stressed out to look.
From Literature
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