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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
apparently
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
apparently/seemingly random
▪ a wave of apparently random attacks
apparently/seemingly unaware
▪ The man, apparently unaware that he was being filmed, tried to break into the house.
seemingly/apparently oblivious
▪ Congress was seemingly oblivious to these events.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Apparently, it was a really good party.
Apparently, Jim's a really good tennis player.
▪ Campaign funds have been used for apparently illegal activities.
▪ It's going to be hot this weekend, apparently.
▪ Nelson apparently committed suicide.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An apparently dangerous criminal may be hospitalised with a restriction stipulating that only the Home secretary can authorise his release.
▪ But what about patients who are apparently fit and healthy until they suffer a massive exposure to toxic man-made chemicals?
▪ Frank Bruno, after only three fights since quitting pantomime, is apparently lined up to fight both champions.
▪ He was traumatized as a child, apparently, when his mentally ill father forced him to kill a thief.
▪ Shankar and his tabla player, Alla Rakha, held the apparently preposterous view that all notes were equal.
▪ Some of this money apparently showed up in the Whitewater account.
▪ The apparently coordinated attacks overloaded the sites with a barrage of messages generated by hackers.
▪ The impact, occurring shortly before midnight local time, apparently knocked out all communications before warning could be given.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apparently

Apparently \Ap*par"ent*ly\, adv.

  1. Visibly. [Obs.]
    --Hobbes.

  2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.

    If he should scorn me so apparently.
    --Shak.

  3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
apparently

late 14c., "visibly, openly," from apparent + -ly (2). Meaning "evidently" is from 1550s; that of "to all appearances" (but not necessarily "really") is from 1560s; meaning "so far as can be judged, seemingly," is from 1846. A gradual retreat from certainty.

Wiktionary
apparently

adv. 1 plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. 2 seemingly; in appearance only. 3 According to what the speaker has read or been told.

WordNet
apparently
  1. adv. 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" [syn: seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it]

  2. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" [syn: obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, plainly, plain]

Wikipedia
Apparently

"Apparently" is a song by American rapper J. Cole, released on December 9, 2014 as the lead single from his third studio album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive. The song samples "La Morte Dell'ermina" by Filippo Trecca, and was produced by J. Cole. The song has since peaked at number 58 and 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, respectively. The song was nominated for Best Rap Performance for the 2016 Grammys.

Usage examples of "apparently".

Apparently satisfied it would support his weight, he leaned back, rocking gently while Abie prepared their coffee.

He was apparently about thirty years old, with a sallow, olive complexion and fairly good features, but an abnormally high forehead.

It was time well spent, for they located a number of vessels in the port, with their names and destinations, and gave him chapter and verse of the hunt for the absconders from Port Arthur, which had apparently been going on for most of the day.

Often, the leaders and practitioners of absolutist religions were unable to perceive any middle ground or recognize that the truth might draw upon and embrace apparently contradictory doctrines.

The glands which had remained in contact for two or three days with the viscid masses were not discoloured, and apparently had absorbed little of the liquefied tissue, or had been little affected by it.

Another showed a young woman apparently drugged, and then gagged with masking tape, before being abused by two men.

Late-night cafes inNew Yorkwere apparently so familiar with this procedure that waiters and other diners would smile indulgently at Benzedrine abusers when they picked up the smell of menthol across the room.

When the lead in the assay has been separated as sulphate and dissolved in sodic acetate, less chromate is apparently required, and in this case it will be necessary to precipitate the lead in the standard with an equivalent of sodic sulphate and redissolve in sodic acetate just as in the assay.

She ached for the return of her husband, for the love she had apparently lost.

The act apparently assumed that while a member of the Cabinet acted as President he would retain his Cabinet post.

Some Family members, led by Rikart Neumann and Acton van Reuter, had apparently agreed to throw their support behind the Laum in exchange for augmentation technology.

It was shown in the last chapter that the stolons or runners of certain plants circumnutate largely, and that this movement apparently aids them in finding a passage between the crowded stems of adjoining plants.

Lincoln defended himself with fair and full statements of fact, and was apparently justified in adopting the policy he had chosen.

It is adsorbed, apparently, on all the cell surfaces in the body, foreign bacteria included, and seals them from chemical influence.

Apparently handfuls of migrants from Eastern Polynesia failed to establish the tanging of adzes among the conservative Western Polynesians.