supposedly

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“Adopting the Russian flag is a way for the dark fleet to be supposedly protected from raids,” said Richard Meade, editor in chief of Lloyd’s List, a shipping report.

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But we live in a time when everything from ad-free streaming services to self-driving cars can supposedly liberate us from the mundane.

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Fair enough but he thinks eliminating supposedly inadvertent features of the tax code—those “loopholes” or “caverns”—would work.

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The public will supposedly trust vaccines more if there are fewer of them.

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Alexander Hamilton supposedly stood on the steps and begged the mob to turn back, to no avail.

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