Could be
Plausibly
Plausibly adverb - Easy to believe on the basis of available evidence.
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Synonyms for Plausibly
Could be and plausibly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Could be" instead an adverb "Plausibly".
Nearby Words: plausible, plausibility
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- likely and could be
- likely and plausibly
- conceivable and could be
- conceivable and plausibly
- apparently and could be
- apparently and plausibly
- credible and could be
- credible and plausibly
- feasible and could be
- feasible and plausibly
- presumably and could be
- presumably and plausibly
- probably and could be
- probably and plausibly
Both terms in one sentence
- Plausibly there could be a range limit, but there were many times when the balloons were just a few yards away and so could've been called to.
Source: Idiot Plot / Live-Action Film - Although there's ultimately a mundane explanation that plausibly explains the events of the episode, there's still one or two things that suggest the house could be haunted after all.
Source: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane - Director Brad Bird took great care to stage the action of the Kwik-E-Mart robbery so that everything could be captured from the angle that a security camera would plausibly be.
Source: Magical Security Cam
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