necessarily
by or of necessity; as a matter of compulsion or requirement: You don't necessarily have to attend.
as a necessary, logical, or inevitable result: That conclusion doesn't necessarily follow.
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How to use necessarily in a sentence
Meanwhile, support for progressive policies doesn’t necessarily translate to enthusiasm for mainstream Democratic candidates.
More And More Americans Aren’t Religious. Why Are Democrats Ignoring These Voters? | Daniel Cox | September 17, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightAgain, people don’t necessarily know how the military operates.
Mobilizing the National Guard Doesn’t Mean Your State Is Under Martial Law. Usually. | by Logan Jaffe | September 17, 2020 | ProPublicaThe change reflects a growing concern at the Fed that in recessions, inflation often falls far below 2%, but it doesn’t necessarily reach 2% when the economy is expanding.
Fed leaves short-term interest rates unchanged at nearly zero | Lee Clifford | September 16, 2020 | FortuneThat’s not necessarily a critique of this paper, though, says Boykoff.
Political rhetoric may impact your hurricane preparedness | Ula Chrobak | September 11, 2020 | Popular-ScienceWhat the models are telling us now — what they’ve always been telling us — is not, necessarily, the job we asked them to do at the beginning of this pandemic.
Coronavirus Models Were Always About More Than Flattening The Curve | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 10, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
It's not necessarily a deal-breaker, but it is kind of a top priority.
Detention facilities would not necessarily have to keep up with U.S. prison standards.
Nor do Turkers necessarily want a traditional union, Salehi noted.
Amazon’s Turkers Kick Off the First Crowdsourced Labor Guild | Kevin Zawacki | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAmerica, Stephens writes, is not necessarily in “decline” but rather “retreat.”
‘America in Retreat’: Why Neo-Isolationism Exploded Under Obama and What We Can Do About It | James Kirchick | December 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day | James Jones | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMen's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
Pearls of Thought | Maturin M. BallouSuch mutual distrust necessarily creates or accompanies a lack of moral courage.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe three groups necessarily include all in the community who circulate money.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur Phillipsnecessarily, therefore, Americans were beginning to manufacture their own cloth, which they could very well do.
The Eve of the Revolution | Carl BeckerSince he had decided to 'slip out' this attitude towards his cousin was necessarily involved.
The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
British Dictionary definitions for necessarily
/ (ˈnɛsɪsərɪlɪ, ˌnɛsɪˈsɛrɪlɪ) /
as an inevitable or natural consequence: girls do not necessarily like dolls
as a certainty: he won't necessarily come
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