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arguably
adverb
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▪ Although first written in 1951, this description of the content and impacts of constitutions is arguably still the best.
▪ Contact between school and business leads naturally to, arguably, the most fruitful area for partnership - curriculum enhancement.
▪ If Glenn McGrath, arguably currently the world's finest fast bowler, drops a short one, cut or hook him.
▪ Sketchpad was not only the first drawing program, but was arguably the best, absurdly ahead of its time.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
arguably

"as may be shown by argument," 1890, from arguable + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
arguably

adv. As can be supported or proven by sound logical deduction, evidence, and precedent.

WordNet
arguably

adv. as can be shown by argument; "she is arguably the best"

Wikipedia
Arguably

Arguably: Essays is a 2011 book by Christopher Hitchens, comprising 107 essays on a variety of political and cultural topics. These essays were previously published in The Atlantic, City Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, Newsweek, New Statesman, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Wilson Quarterly, and Vanity Fair. Arguably also includes introductions that Hitchens wrote for new editions of several classic texts, such as Animal Farm and Our Man in Havana.

Usage examples of "arguably".

Catholic Inquisition published the book that arguably could be called the most blood-soaked publication in human history.

Holy Grail is arguably the most sought-after treasure in human history.

The upside consists of an enhanced sensibility, which is, arguably, a more than adequate compensation.

And being able to fix some of his own equipment was helpful, so arguably he should have some blacksmith tools.

In fact, metal bracers are arguably necessary for combat archery, although they should have something on the inner side to shield the bowstring.

Master Viscenti knew, especially coming from the man who had the most to lose, and who was secure in what was arguably the most fortified bastion in all the world.

I still do not approve of the way this has been done, but by the time your plans became uncovered it would arguably have caused more damage attempting to arrest them than letting them go ahead.

Kennedy was president, America was not yet at war, and Belmont, Massachusetts, where he and his wife had moved ten years earlier, was arguably the epitome of all that was safe and peaceful in the world.

It was a shapeless mythical monster that bore little relation to the actual Catholic doctrine of equivocation-- heroic if arguably ill-advised--which was intended to avoid the sin of lying when in dangerous conditions.

And when Alice is herself again drawn into the mad proceedings and forced to participate, her open rebellion is, arguably, inevitable.

I consider depression to be arguably the greatest scourge now facing modern Western society, a form of plague without lesions or other telltale signs, a plague no amount of safe sex can protect you from.

Suddenly, very suddenly, the Ascenders were out, the Descenders were inand the transition was bloody, arguably the bloodiest cognitive transformation in European history.

Arguably, the satirical commentary of a noted polemicist should not be treated with the earnest indignation better reserved for the invasion of Poland.

The femme self of the adult CD can arguably be seen as the transvestic analogue of an adult relationship with a woman--the logic being that just as the juvenile CD became his mother, the adult CD posits a feminine self to whom he can relate emotionally and sexually.

One might even - knowing the importance that the Mercatoria attaches to reconnecting all the many, many systems which have been without Arteria access all these millennia - wonder why the expedition from Zenerre to Ulubis with a new portal was dispatched with such alacrity, given the arguably still greater claims that more populous, more classically strategically important and more at-the-time obviously threatened systems might have had upon the resources and expertise of our esteemed colleagues in the Engineering faculty.