patently
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At least six lower courts ruled against it, with judges of varying ideologies calling it patently illegal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Both propositions are patently false, but it doesn’t matter.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2025
She added: "I'd never seen anything quite so patently explicit about the extent to which a university would go to ensure that they have Chinese student income."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
All of this matters not just because it’s all patently ridiculous, but because this is what every artist who appeared at Lilith Fair was fighting against.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
Only in a world where everything is patently being lost can a priest stir men’s hearts as a poet would by maintaining that nothing is in vain.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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