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"You are supposed to act grown up and not necessarily be playful or express things loudly, or struggle…"
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
But Ukrainian arms makers don’t necessarily have supplies to spare or the ability to export.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
“It’s probably a time to have a little bit more of a neutral stance, not necessarily leaning too much into risk,” says Garrett Melson, a portfolio strategist at Natixis.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
If you’re a family that needs to sit together, for example, it’s not necessarily going to work out well if you leave it to the airline to assign your seats.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
One mistake is the argument that discovery claims are necessarily retrospective because ‘discovery’ is an ‘achievement word’, like checkmate in chess.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing necessarily
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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