definitionally
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By tacit agreement, everything Charles did or didn’t do was definitionally something someone with cooties would or wouldn’t do.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
“I think, definitionally, it’s a dynasty,” said Friedman, the architect of this run with the help of Walter’s deep-pocketed Guggenheim ownership group.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025
There certainly may be legitimate reasons to delete a BeReal, but in general, the purpose of the app is to showcase people’s imperfect lives — and that definitionally involves leaving some imperfect posts up.
From The Verge • Aug. 18, 2022
In March and April 2020, when simply visiting the supermarket felt like indulging a death wish, an indoor hatchet-throwing facility seemed definitionally inessential.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2021
Relations of ideas deal with matters that are definitionally or necessarily true, such as 2 + 2 = 4 or all bachelors are unmarried.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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