Definition of "presumably" []

• Able to be sensibly presumed. (adverb)

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• "Anyone with the faintest interest in philology will have spotted that ‘gryphon’, from which his surname presumably derives, is a Greek word for a mythical dragon which featured prominently in Persian folkore."
• "Soon the nation's first baseball team owner ever to be selected as president was outside the White House intoning that the "sport had been sullied" in what he called the presumably now gone "steroid era.""
• "The preacher is the curious kind of what I call the presumably unintended selfish Christian."