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plausibly

adverb C1
  1. In a plausible manner. · She lied plausibly, but the police suspected her anyway.
  2. Probably; not falsifiably, based on available facts and general knowledge. · Plausibly, she said she'd been working at the time.
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It was a stroke of positive genius on his part to see in the burglary scare which was convulsing the country side an opportunity of plausibly getting rid of the man whom he feared.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 54 · B2

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