Sentence examples for supposedly essential from inspiring English sources
"supposedly essential" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English
It is typically used to express doubt or skepticism about something that is widely believed to be necessary or important. Example: The new software update is supposedly essential for our company's success, but many employees are struggling to adapt to it.
It has prospered from the very brutal repression that was supposedly essential to stop the jihadists.
Licence fee payers paid nearly £100m for this supposedly essential system but got virtually nothing in return".
She's a strange choice, one might to say, to carry water for a bit of public relations subterfuge supposedly essential to the president's re-election chances.
Whether it would be any harder to get work without an ID card than it currently is without a (supposedly essential) national insurance number is not clear.
The employees get to keep the bonuses while AIG is deprived of funds that were supposedly essential to keeping it afloat.
All these details were supposedly essential to the CPS's case, attempting to prove that the images showed adults causing "serious injury" to each other's genitals and anuses and that Walsh had a keen interest in viewing pornography of this kind.
A new feature called System Restore supposedly protects essential files from danger.
To this day most Americans have been gulled into believing that the Federal Reserve was chartered in 1913 to serve as a last-resort lender to banks that were supposedly an essential economic input.
The supposedly non-essential services are always first for the chop – but cuts have gone much deeper.
In addition, some supposedly non-essential genes involved in AcMNPV transcription regulation are also present in the PsinSNPV genome: lef-6, lef-11, 39 K, lef-10 and protein kinase 1 (pk1).
Supposedly, it is essential for London's bid for the 2012 Olympics ("Can't be ready so soon," said Mr Darling this week; "Nonsense," said London's mayor, Ken Livingstone).
