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presumably

adverb

Reveal meaning and examples

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

The missing chairs were presumably in the storage room.

Dictionary practice example.

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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