The phrase "almost obviously" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is nearly clear or evident, but not entirely so, often implying a degree of uncertainty or nuance.
Example: "The solution to the problem was almost obviously the result of a lack of communication among team members."
Alternatives: "nearly evident" or "practically clear".
Spelling bees draw words in some order – and almost obviously, random assignment seems like the fairest option, and is the most common choice by spelling bees.
It's almost obviously true: one only has to find a few overstated claims about the risks of flu, which isn't hard to do.
These concepts are thoroughly, almost obviously embedded in our culture.
"Most obviously, almost inevitably, after meals," he said.
Ms Frederick speculates that Nick may have been recreating piano chords, such as those his mother played, and learnt to detune his guitar so that he could replicate them.Then there are the songs in which it seems the pair are almost having a dialogue, most obviously in Molly's "Poor Mum and Nickk's "Poor Boy".
He has had better moments than almost anybody, obviously, but there is always something you could say he could do something about.
And yet it was hard to emerge from Andrei Serban's acclaimed new production of Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina" at the Bastille Opera without remarking almost too obviously on the parallels between 17th-century Russia and, say, Afghanistan, Iran and Russia today.
² In HEP seminars you get the rather nice phenomenon of a speaker saying, almost apologectically, "Obviously this is important for treating cancer, but how is it relevant to particle physics?" Sort of the opposite of some of the comments I get below the line here.
And McGuane does come up with an alternative to Paul Crusoe's hip, shameless "sulfurousness": Bill Champion, an aged rancher with mysterious ties to the Whitelaw family, who almost too obviously embodies the values of the Old West under threat from the likes of such rapacious entrepreneurs as Sunny Jim and Paul.
When your personal multiplicity is printed on your face, in an almost too obviously thematic manner, in your DNA, in your hair and in the neither this nor that beige of your skin — well, anyone can see you come from Dream City.
