Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a conceivable, supposable, or intelligible manner; possibly.
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- adverb In a
conceivable manner,possibly .
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- adverb within the realm of possibility
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Examples
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Tom @900: Could the name conceivably be Bayntun instead of "Bathtun"?
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Even though we haven’t gone through armageddon or an apocalypse (though some would probably beg to differ), we are living in what conceivably is someones future.
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The thought that the label could conceivably lose *NSYNC was a nightmare to him.
Out of Sync Lance Bass 2007
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The thought that the label could conceivably lose *NSYNC was a nightmare to him.
Out of Sync Lance Bass 2007
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Authentic or not, the fact that both men used essentially the same phrase conceivably could be merely "a pun of destiny," as Arthur Koestler once described the notion of coincidence.
A Pun Of Destiny? Beach Blogger 2006
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But as long as the courts were willing to let discrimination stand if the justification for it was "conceivably" logical in the abstract, it was tough to win the parenting argument.
Matt Coles: The Legal Importance of the Iowa Marriage Decision 2009
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Action #3: Failing to disclose the allowance of the CIP to the examiner of the '716 patent, which could have "conceivably" triggered a double-patenting rejection:
CAFC Affirms Finding of Inequitable Conduct for Failing to Disclose Information Peter Zura 2007
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In a sprightly 5-4 decision, Supreme Court Justice Mary Fairhurst wrote that Woo's practical joke was an integral, if odd, part of the assistant's dental surgery and "conceivably" should trigger the professional liability coverage of his policy....
Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Action #3: Failing to disclose the allowance of the CIP to the examiner of the '716 patent, which could have "conceivably" triggered a double-patenting rejection:
Archive 2007-05-01 Peter Zura 2007
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It might be that the cosmical bodies which were still nebulous owed their later development to some conditions of the part of space where they occurred, such as conceivably a greater original homogeneity, in consequence of which condensation began less early.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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