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necessarily

adverb

ˌne-sə-ˈser-ə-lē

Definition of necessarily

as in inevitably

because of necessity the argument that the existence of the universe necessarily implies the existence of an all-powerful being responsible for creating it

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Recent Examples of necessarily The 2026-27 TV season is just a month old, so these are necessarily small sample sizes. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026 Uploading financial documents, even if they’re redacted, is inevitably filling a tech company’s vault with your sensitive information without necessarily knowing what will happen to it next. — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 23 Oct. 2026 While not every website using PHP is necessarily vulnerable, the software's widespread use has raised concerns about the potential scale of attacks. — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 Because light obeys a superposition principle even under classical physics, this experimental breakthrough doesn’t imply that Schrödinger’s equation necessarily applies to objects 12,900 kilometers wide. — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for necessarily

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inevitably

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Given the small-market haze surrounding this matchup, inevitably there will be online discourse about the television ratings for the World Series.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
When the high school characters had to inevitably graduate, the show’s premise no longer held, forcing a complete restructure.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

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