personally
Example Sentences
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Figures like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon were adventurers, and while perhaps not personally admirable, they changed history and changed it irrevocably:
From Salon
"A few of us have been there, it is difficult when it is you, but you have to try not to take it too personally," added Henderson, who has 89 senior caps for England.
From BBC
Newsom’s executive order prohibits gubernatorial appointees “from using any non-public information obtained due to their public service to personally profit or assist another person…in profiting from participation in predictive markets.”
“Mr. and Mrs. Bohm love their son very much and have always acted in his best interests, both personally and professionally, and still do so to this day,” lawyer Robert Eckard said.
From Los Angeles Times
Cognitive autonomy—the capacity to think for yourself, to hold ideas in your head, to reason without scaffolding—isn’t only personally valuable.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
