societally
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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"We are serious about tackling this but also societally we have to tackle this because if we don't the consequences will be very, very serious."
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
“There’s obviously a whole range of things that AI can be applied to, and some are incredibly societally beneficial,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
“There was this refusal to acknowledge what was patently obvious to even someone who just looks at this thing: I don’t think this is a societally valuable way to travel,” Zipper said.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
He’s another person struggling to appear faultless to maintain some societally manufactured idea of male coolness.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
For Rodrigo, music is a vehicle for “expressing those feelings that are really hard to externalize, or that you feel aren’t societally acceptable to externalize,” she told the New York Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
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