Definition of "apparently" []

• Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. (adverb)
• Seemingly; in appearance only. (adverb)
• According to what the speaker has read or been told. (adverb)

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• "The PLA unit is popularly known as the Blue Army, a name apparently picked to distinguish it from the Communist Party's main fighting machine, nicknamed the Red Army."
• "By then young Zimmerman had changed his name apparently after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and had adopted some of Guthrie's persona."
• "In addition to amalgamating the words "made in", the term apparently translates phonetically into Chinese as "without a roof"."