secondary
adjective
next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
secondarily
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a word derived from
secondary.
Example Sentences
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As Girshick noted, this “is the team that thinks holistically, and it has to be your first thought every single day, and then secondarily you think about your functional or your business responsibility.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
For over a century, the Supreme Court has said others can be secondarily liable for another’s copyright infringement.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2025
The study also revealed that ferns likely recruited ant defenders secondarily, tapping into pre-existing ant-angiosperm relationships as they transitioned from the forest floor to the canopy.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024
I’ll always feel a little less-than because of my size and, secondarily, my Crohn’s disease.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
It was when I first began to perceive that “white man,” as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
