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[ UK /pɹɪzjˈuːməbli/ ]
[ US /pɹəˈzuməbɫi, pɹiˈzuməbɫi, pɹɪˈzuməbɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. by reasonable assumption
    presumably, he missed the train

How To Use presumably In A Sentence

  • Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.
  • Tranmere played with a good deal more enthusiasm as the evening wore on, suggesting that Aldridge had expressed - presumably in an indelicate fashion - his sense of displeasure during the recess.
  • His casual reaction, "you're overreacting," "these things happen, right?" suggests they've gone through this before, with presumably the more recent procedure she discussed with her gyno. Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Help!
  • Note also the profound hypochondriasis and fear that they are being infected by a "cancer"--again, a plot presumably put together by the Jews. Archive 2009-02-01
  • But one day he disturbed her privacy and barged into her room, presumably to force more work on her, while she had it out.
  • When a firm buys a new machine, it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost.
  • This meant that events presumably of interest mainly to Poles - such as the 1944 Rising - would often be scanted by the media.
  • The thing the article doesn't mention in much detail, presumably because the writer isn't diabetic, is how awful hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) feels. SeeLight:
  • Another, presumably later, inhumation cemetery lay in and around the southern boundary ditch at its Ryknild Street end.
  • When he made that announcement, the prime minister presumably did not mean that the official would continue to do his first-class job until Wednesday evening, whereupon he would draft a truly top-hole letter of resignation.
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