selectively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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My hope as a father is that these schools selectively and appropriately apply these methods to help make children safer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Both critics and defenders of the county’s stewardship draw selectively from annual reports by Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, an independent state agency that helps local educational agencies with management and financial issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Bloom says he has used a variety of approaches including accounting for distance, economic gravity, the size of the economy and selectively omitting potential outliers.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
The study builds on earlier research from the same team that developed a technique for selectively concentrating whey proteins.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
Just like industrialized Europe and America, traditional New Guinea has conservative societies that resist new ways, living side by side with innovative societies that selectively adopt new ways.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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