exclusively
in a way that leaves out or shuts out all others:Here to talk with us exclusively in the studio this morning is the director whose film won four Oscars this year.
in a way that allows only wealthy or upper-class people to purchase or participate:Though exclusively priced—it’s not cheap—the resort offers many activities and doesn’t disappoint.
in a way that omits a certain thing from consideration or calculation:The number of days allowed for filing the report shall be reckoned exclusively of the day the event occurred.
Origin of exclusively
1Other words from exclusively
- pre·ex·clu·sive·ly, adverb
- sem·i-ex·clu·sive·ly, adverb
- ul·tra·ex·clu·sive·ly, adverb
- un·ex·clu·sive·ly, adverb
Words Nearby exclusively
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How to use exclusively in a sentence
To this point, Antuna has almost exclusively played shortstop in the minors.
Nationals protect Steven Fuentes, Yasel Antuna and Joan Adon from Rule 5 draft | Jesse Dougherty | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostThe commissioners can’t use exclusively race to determine the remaining members, but can include it as a factor.
Morning Report: Turning Border Sewage Into Local Water | Voice of San Diego | November 20, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoFor football games, the Cavaliers used that allotment of tickets exclusively for family of players and coaches.
Virginia football down another starter as it seeks to climb back to .500 | Gene Wang | November 19, 2020 | Washington PostMorales said the families of 33 children had accepted slots for in-person teaching before the city abandoned those plans and shifted exclusively to CARE classrooms.
After 8 months, D.C. Public Schools reopens buildings for more than 400 students | Perry Stein | November 18, 2020 | Washington PostFilms that open to $50 million or more, however, will stay in theaters exclusively for at least five full weekends, or 31 days.
So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President | Pierre Assouline | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe new information consisted of Internet protocol addresses that Comey said are “exclusively used” by North Korea.
The user fee on duck stamps goes exclusively to funding federal acquisition of wetlands as wildlife habitat.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive | Ben Jacobs | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMost if not all professional dungeons offer sessions exclusively with female dominants.
Dungeons and Genital Clamps: Inside a Legendary BDSM Chateau | Ian Frisch | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt added that it would be “operated exclusively for public and social-welfare purposes.”
Mystery Man Buys Kentucky for the GOP | Center for Public Integrity | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Variegated Horsetail is not exclusively maritime, however, for it sometimes grows by the sides of rivers and ponds.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinA notable increase is limited almost exclusively to myelogenous leukemia, where they are sometimes very numerous.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddOf the other substances, iodine is restricted exclusively to sea-plants, but to them it appears to be essential.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas AndersonThat gentleman secured the industry for his city by organizing a corporation to build exclusively Hope-Jones organs.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerThe education of young ladies, at that time, in France, was conducted almost exclusively by nuns in convents.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
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