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necessarily
[ nes-uh-sair-uh-lee, -ser- ]
adverb
- 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.
necessarily
/ ˌnɛsɪˈsɛrɪlɪ; ˈnɛsɪsərɪlɪ /
adverb
- as an inevitable or natural consequence
girls do not necessarily like dolls
- as a certainty
he won't necessarily come
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Word History and Origins
Origin of necessarily1
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Example Sentences
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.
America, Stephens writes, is not necessarily in “decline” but rather “retreat.”
To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.
Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
Such mutual distrust necessarily creates or accompanies a lack of moral courage.
The three groups necessarily include all in the community who circulate money.
Necessarily, therefore, Americans were beginning to manufacture their own cloth, which they could very well do.
Since he had decided to 'slip out' this attitude towards his cousin was necessarily involved.
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