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"apparently" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often seemingly (9 letters).
Definitions
unmistakably (‘plain’ is often used informally for ‘plainly’)
Word origin
From apparent + -ly.
Used in a sentence
“If he should scorn me so apparently.”
“One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.”
“A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“So it seems”10 letters
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