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necessarily adv.
per se adv.

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

The inflation threat that bonds face isn’t from inflation that is currently expected but from unexpected inflation — which, by definition, is unexpected.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

But immortality, by definition, means that we are never done, unless a scythe determines it to be so.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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