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seemingly

— adverb (= apparently, ostensibly, on the face of it) from appearances alone irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it — Thomas Hardy on the face of it the problem seems minor

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apparently ostensibly supposedly on the face of it probably presumably to all appearance at first blush allegedly to the eye to all appearances speciously somewhat somehow simulated seem pseudo pretend possibly perhaps outwardly ostensively on the outside maybe likely evidently by the looks of things by the look of it as if

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Seem

What words indicate that something seems to be happening, or something seems to be true?

it seems it appears it looks as if apparently to all appearances by all appearances seemingly on the face of it on the surface outwardly

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Seemingly impossible things sometimes happen.

It was not long before John had an idea. John always knew a way out of seemingly hopeless situations.

It warms your heart to, when listening to a song in a (seemingly!) foreign language like Slovak, Macedonian, Slovenian, hear words you have known since your childhood and even understand whole phrases.

It warms your heart when, while listening to a song in a (seemingly!) foreign language - Slovak, Macedonian, or Slovenian - you hear words that you have known since your childhood and even understand whole phrases.

One of the two puppies running alongside the pram kept trying to catch the rotating left front wheel of the pram with its mouth, seemingly thinking it was a ball it could play with, and it was a miracle it did not hurt itself in the process.

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In 1916, as independent candidate for governor the best elements of the state behind him the White House seemingly the next easy step in a lightning political career then suddenly, less than one week before election defeat.

There were then some eight people between me and the dukedom all seemingly equally out of reach.

However they made one seemingly insignificant mistake.

They've all got jobs, they all live seemingly normal, decent lives, but they got their problems and they've all got a little larceny in 'em.

He filled his head with notions seemingly.

Historians, who have superbly told us about it,.. with almost miraculous insight, knew how to discover, get out of the shadows,.. obscure figures, seemingly irrelevant,..

Seemingly off guard, yet alert.

The plane kept circling the airport seemingly unable to decide to land.

Would you like to eat? -Come on! My questions is seemingly simple, but it isn't.

But the inconsistencies are so compounded as to present a seemingly impossible phenomenon.

Seemingly calm and detached, her tiny GI bosom is beating wildly, because she senses the presence of her frequent partner, the notorious red-necked nose-breather.

Seemingly, an uneventful life.

Everyone knew her flowery beauty but, not many knew that deep inside her seemingly gentle and pure heart burned a raging desire to hunt down her enemies.

If I remember well, you already took us to the Bank to show us seemingly headquarters of some secret underground organization.

The amazing special effects of 1933 by John Fulton are still amazing in this day of seemingly boundless effects technology, but details on all this and much more will follow as we go along.

We are so accustomed to the wonderful character actor Henry Travers being cast as a whimsical, bemused benign person, often slightly eccentric, that it's curious here to see him playing seemingly straight and sombre.

That mystery, which although by 1900 had become a legend. was, indeed, a real tragedy and constant threat. to the lives of all the seemingly doomed members of the House of Hammond.

The temptation of sudden wealth could. Could, could possibly turn one of these seemingly harmless men into a ruthless killer.

Seemingly women have better sight.

But then, seemingly on the threshold of some supreme accomplishment which was to have crowned their entire history this all but divine race perished in a single night.

Strange offences committed by seemingly normal people all of them searching for an answer.

Something that seemingly destroyed four planes and barely missed you the first time.

And in some strange and frightening way, she knows that this seemingly ordinary door leads to the twilight zone.

Yeah, he filled his head with notions, seemingly.

The plane kept hovering above the airport,.seemingly unable to decide to land.

Now, this. - Our founder must have known when he wrote these seemingly contradictory rules.

However, they made one seemingly insignificant mistake.

The counter-espionage service took the necessary measures, and thanks to a seemingly humble and simple fisherman, They destroyed the plans of greatest terrorist plot in Latin America.

All of his efforts, seemingly. are directed towards supporting what he calls his school of martial arts.

A perfectly normal boy, or man, seemingly healthy in all respects.

Although they can seemingly do as they please, they must respect the limits imposed by nature.

I asked you to prepare a business plan. a seemingly simple assignment.

We're in a war zone, Dave: two motorcycle officers horribly wounded in a crossfire, the police seemingly unable to rescue them in spite of several desperate, heroic attempts.

Seemingly. Seemingly.

Who is she, and what seemingly innocent pose will she next assume?

News and current affairs

Indeed, on the surface it seems to be its perfect antithesis: the collapse of a wall symbolizing oppression and artificial divisions versus the collapse of a seemingly indestructible and reassuring institution of financial capitalism.

Now the world's attention is focussed on Iran, one recipient of Pakistani technology, as the country seemingly keenest to create its own nuclear arsenal.

Chaos theory in mathematics explains such dependency on remote and seemingly trivial initial conditions, and explains why even the extrapolation of apparently precise planetary motion becomes impossible when taken far enough into the future.

Then there are the seemingly endless giveaways of national resources - from the free spectrum provided to broadcasters to the low royalties levied on mining companies to the subsidies to lumber companies.

But Saudi Arabia continues to be deeply wary of any sort of change, and thus remains a huge and seemingly immovable obstacle to region-wide reform.

Without the hearts of news producers - or, increasingly, of censors - the seemingly formidable edifice of journalistic regulation will, sooner or later, collapse like the Berlin Wall.

The two men met, seemingly as equals, not to express the common values of conservatism, but to confirm and promote their authority to uphold traditional values.

Medical professionals know how often seemingly promising new therapies turn out, after careful study, not to work, or even to be harmful.

For a while this created a seemingly more stable banking system, but that system failed to lend to small and medium sized firms.

By contrast, the IMF urged tighter monetary policy, because it put far less weight on the cost of unemployment, seemingly no weight on the ancillary social benefits of reducing it, and much greater weight on the costs of potential inflation.

And Premier Li Keqiang's visit last May followed a deep PLA incursion into India's Ladakh region, seemingly intended to convey China's anger over India's belated efforts to fortify its border defenses.

New players can materialize seemingly out of nowhere.

But there is also a higher risk of disaster, owing to a seemingly inborn human tendency to extrapolate past returns.

And now, seemingly out of the blue, he has defied and even offended Uribe by undertaking negotiations with the despised FARC, after having delivered such devastating military blows to them that perhaps, this time around, the peace process will prosper.

Even under the now seemingly heroic assumption that the eurozone will survive, the outlook for the European economy is bleak.

Consider the seemingly heated debate over how much capital banks should hold.

The seemingly objective top-down approach ignores the idiosyncratic nature of risk and assumes that one mortgage loan is like the next.

Given their seemingly boundless benefits, it is unsurprising that plastics have replaced traditional materials in many sectors - for example, steel in cars, paper and glass in packaging, and wood in furniture.

Images of the Beijing skyline seemingly bathed in a soup of smog and haze have been a common sight on the world's TV screens in recent days and weeks.

Millions of Britons long for someone or something to protect them from the seemingly alien forces that threaten to steal their livelihoods.

These seemingly mutually exclusive alternatives have one thing in common: neither of them has been thought through to the end.

They are not alone in doing so, for across Asia, a new security architecture is being constructed, seemingly piecemeal.

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