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impersonally

American  
[im-pur-suhn-uh-lee] / ɪmˈpɜr sən ə li /

adverb

  1. in an impersonal way.

  2. with or using an impersonal grammatical construction.


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Belatedly and somewhat impersonally, the Israeli prime minister's office issued a two sentence offer of condolences on Thursday night.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

In fact, despite the suggestion that Burchfield was impersonally coordinating guests from Tennessee, many of his guests were not even from the U.S.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021

A few nightmarish dream sequences, telepathically commanded by Madame Blanc, are impersonally decorative and cliché-riddled.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 30, 2018

The opera’s two best-known arias, “Parto, Parto” and “Deh, per Questo Istante Solo,” were meticulously, if somewhat impersonally, sung by mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2017

He handed something to me—handed it to me as impersonally as the average waiter distributes menus.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

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