Fromadmitted +‎-ly.

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admittedly (comparativemoreadmittedly,superlativemostadmittedly)

1. As isacknowledged to betrue; by generaladmission;confessedly.

   Admittedly, vandalism is a bit of a problem.

   She wasadmittedly the one who killed the baron.

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

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

2. (conjunctive)Signals a concession followed by a counterpoint usually headed bybut.

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

   Admittedly he can't swim, but he still loves going to the seaside anyway.

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• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “admittedly”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
• “admittedly”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

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