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
But through their fandom of a cultural product definitionally designed for children, some of YA’s adult fans have come to see themselves as moral allies of the marginalized category of teen girls.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2019
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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