probably

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I have always hated this and probably always will.

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Quick take

with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war"

Meaning at a glance

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adverb

with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war"

adverb

easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for probably.

adverb

with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war"

adverb

easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election"

See also: credibly, believably, plausibly

Example sentences

I have always hated this and probably always will.

Yes, guys talk about dicks at times and in places that are probably not appropriate.

Your credit rating will probably absorb all the damage.

The guy probably shortchanged himself well over a half-million dollars in the past decade.

If my work mates are talking about something other than work, I'm probably not interested.

If you need introductions, you are probably well-networked enough to get them, but if for some reason you want more drop me an email.

That may be true, but to me it sounds like you're possibly not doing well enough to make any of that possible, and you probably need to find work fast.

I searched a bit and it appears as if 1024 is also inspired by Threes, so my game is probably the last of a long chain of clones :PThe code is also open-source.

Now, I know you and many others reading this post probably think Im just a pissed off student who didnt get the grade he wanted and is now bashing his teacher out of revenge.

There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly.

"I was offered the chance to make a phone call, but the only number I even have memorized anymore is my mother's, and despite knowing that my friends were probably scared to death looking for me, I wasn't at the point of calling her.

Indeed, GoT-broadcast-to-top-of-TPB time is counted in a couple of hours; so why do they try to push those technologies still?The answer is probably because the main goal of DRM is to control distribution channels, not copy-prevention.

Without fully understanding exactly what they are doing, however, it sounds highly abusive of the Mail app's rendering capabilities, and points to exploitable paths within the Mail app that probably need to be tightened up by Apple.