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According to what seems reasonable or likely, though not confirmed.

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presumably

The missing chairs were presumably in the storage room.
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Sera wrote that the note was presumably added by a previous owner because its handwriting resembled that owner's annotations elsewhere in the collection, but she marked that explanation as an assumption.
From A Letter and Three Kinds of Uncertainty.
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