definitionally
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“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
Excluding barnstorming teams and years prior to 1920 makes this accounting definitionally incomplete.
From Slate • Dec. 23, 2020
As a general rule — there are exceptions — all software we buy is a good deal, almost definitionally, because it should be replacing some part of someone’s job that could be replaced.
From The Verge • May 26, 2020
Stephanie Kelton, a senior economic adviser to Bernie Sanders and a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University, is popular in a way that economists, almost definitionally, are not.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 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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