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ADVERB
necessarily
Synonyms
STRONGEST
automatically naturally no doubt undoubtedly unquestionably
WEAK
accordingly as a matter of course axiomatically beyond one's control by its own nature cardinally come what may compulsorily consequently exigently from within fundamentally incontrovertibly indubitably ineluctably inescapably inexorably irresistibly of course of necessity perforce positively pressingly significantly unpreventably vitally willy-nilly without fail
Antonyms
STRONGEST
doubtfully questionably
WEAK
unnecessarily
ADVERB
per se
Synonyms
WEAK
alone as such by and of itself by its very nature by itself fundamentally in essence in itself independently intrinsically of itself singularly solely virtually

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And that – by definition – has long made it a potential target.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Identity by definition is not momentary,” he noted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"Judging a military deployment by whether it has solved a political crisis that, by definition, it cannot solve, would be misguided," Eledinov said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Regardless, if it doesn’t exceed the recent highs in two more days, that will be a buy signal by definition.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

And how could anyone experiment on the unconscious, which, by definition, seemed to defy laboratory techniques of testing?

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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