admittedly

From admitted +‎ -ly.

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admittedly (comparative more admittedly, superlative most admittedly)

1. As is acknowledged to be true; by general admission; confessedly.

   Admittedly, vandalism is a bit of a problem.

   It's only a theory, admittedly, but it might work.

   She was admittedly the one who killed the baron.

   • 2024 May 6, Ben Guarino, “Defend Yourself against AI Impostor Scams with a Safe Word”, in Scientific American‎^[1]:

     Adopting a computerlike countermeasure for a problem enabled by computer algorithms is admittedly an unnatural practice.

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• “admittedly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “admittedly”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.