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    Oxford’s top definition for Apparent is “clearly visible or understood; obvious”

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      And the second (which is how they are using it) is “seeming real or true, but not necessarily so”.

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        I think the third one is “brother, i really don’t wanna get sued for that shit.” Pretty sure they are using that one.

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        Having read the article, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The undertones of the writing seem to be “There have been some attempts to deny that these are Nazi salutes (and not from the people making the gestures), but plausible deniability is rapidly running out and it definitely looks exactly like a Nazi salute”.