According to what the speaker has read or been told.(adverb)
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Use "apparently" in a sentence
"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"."