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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
probably
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
need
▪ The tremolo would probably need setting up properly because it feels stiff and uneven in use.
▪ That stuff is easily replaced and probably needs an upgrade every year or two anyway.
▪ You will probably need to change the layout around as the artwork evolves.
▪ What she probably needs much more is your empathy and appreciation.
▪ In fact, you will probably need to overcome a certain reluctance to be recorded, whatever your location.
▪ Our waitress Lisa, a real pro, suggests the steak probably needs none, and she's right.
▪ Yesterday, a police spokesman said the classroom would probably need a joist in the ceiling replacing.
▪ And it gives you a sense of control again, just when you probably need it most.
think
▪ He probably thinks everyone is still having a good time out there somewhere in the fog.
▪ He probably thinks of him as a lesser George Hearst, neither quite crooked enough nor quite successful enough to he interesting.
▪ They probably thought that it was unfair.
▪ Some of the students probably thought of me as in league with him in some way.
▪ You probably thought everything had changed by now.
▪ I would probably think of that as physics, in a complex way.
▪ You probably think your sweat is helping rebuild the might of Berlin.
▪ When you bought that new computer a couple of years ago, you probably thought its 500-megabyte hard disk would last for ever.
win
▪ Commercial battles are not always won on technical merit, and at present X Windows is probably winning.
▪ So let us turn to another increasingly apparent fact: Gore probably won more votes than Bush in Florida too.
▪ In other words it's a relatively high risk gamble, but if your army holds together you will probably win.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Where is Joan?" "She's probably still at work."
▪ Archaeologists think the temple was probably built in the 3rd century AD.
▪ He wrote dozens of books, but this is probably his best-known novel.
▪ I'll probably be late for dinner tonight.
▪ We'll probably be shooting the movie on location in Europe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And he's probably, without knowing it of course, jealous of our happiness.
▪ Daffodil Quentin seems to be acceptable to the other owners, who of course probably don't know about her three dead horses.
▪ I probably should not have been stunned, since civil wars test allegiances.
▪ If we played a lame-duck year in Hartford, we probably would have lost $ 20 million to $ 25 million.
▪ Other zoos will probably euthanase theirs.
▪ The body count was probably higher, maybe as high as 44, though police could never prove it.
▪ There probably will be no kids as a result.
▪ Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Probably

Probably \Prob"a*bly\, adv. In a probable manner; in likelihood.

Distinguish between what may possibly and what will probably be done.
--L'Estrange.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
probably

mid-15c., "plausibly," from probable + -ly (2). As a general purpose qualifier, 1610s.

Wiktionary
probably

adv. in all likelihood.

WordNet
probably
  1. adv. with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war" [syn: likely, in all likelihood, in all probability, belike]

  2. easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election" [syn: credibly, believably, plausibly] [ant: incredibly]

Wikipedia
Probably

Probably may refer to:

  • Probability, the chance that something is likely to happen or be the case
  • "Probably" (South Park), an episode of the TV series South Park
  • "Probably" (song), a song by Fool's Garden
Probably (South Park)

"Probably" is the 10th episode of the fourth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 58th episode of the series overall. "Probably" originally aired in the United States on July 26, 2000, on Comedy Central. The episode was rated TV-MA. It is the second part of a two-part episode, which concludes the story-line from " Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?".

Usage examples of "probably".

I could feel the inked lines of my own accreditation tat twisting and tingling under the skin of my left cheek, the emerald set at the top of the twisted caduceus probably flashing.

But those red points in the accretion disc are Xeelee emplacements, Sugar Lumps, probably used as flak batteries.

Italy, for instance, is full of accumulated wealth, of art, even of ostentation and display, and the new generation probably have lost the power to conceive, if not the skill to execute, the great works which excite our admiration.

The result is that we can only say that at some depth, probably less than a mile, the slowly accumulating ice would acquire such a temperature that, subjected to the weight above it, the material next the bottom would become molten, or at least converted into a sludgelike state, in which it could not rub against the bottom, or move stones in the manner of ordinary glaciers.

The gallant and unfortunate earl of Surrey might probably have escaped his unmerited fate, had not his demand of the combat against his accuser been overruled.

Colborne, as exceptions to the class of cases fit to be included in an amnesty, there must probably among the prisoners be some flagrant and prominent cases of delinquency, which it would not be just or advisable to comprehend in the general lenity.

What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.

This appears to be a recessive, but probably involves multiple allelomorphs in man, as in other animals.

There were so many things she had to do to her body that she rebelled at subjecting it to one more medication, to which she would probably be allergic anyway.

I contemplated food phobias, the more I became convinced that people who habitually avoid certifiably delicious foods are at least as troubled as people who avoid sex, or take no pleasure from it, except that the latter will probably seek psychiatric help, while food phobics rationalize their problem in the name of genetic inheritance, allergy, vegetarianism, matters of taste, nutrition, food safety, obesity, or a sensitive nature.

Jesse noticed, that he was probably also far more convinced than Lars was that the alligator remains might have something to do with the case.

It will probably be a while before The Angst lifts -- but whenever it happens I will get out of bed again and start writing the mean, cold-blooded bummer that I was not quite ready for today.

It will require a strong standing army, and probably more than two hundred millions per annum, to maintain the supremacy of negro governments after they are established,--a sum thus thrown away which would, if properly used, form a sinking-fund large enough to pay the whole National debt in less than fifteen years.

In the instance now alluded to, and probably in all other cases, the deleterious mixture had been caused ignorantly, by the adulteration of the anotta employed for colouring the cheese.

It extended to his fate in the other world--too probably, in his eyes, that endless, yearless, undivided fate, wherein the breath still breathed into the soul of man by his Maker is no longer the breath of life, but the breath of infinite death-- Sole Positive of Night, Antipathist of Light, giving to the ideal darkness a real and individual hypostasis in helpless humanity, keeping men alive that the light in them may continue to be darkness.