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appropriately

adverb as in suitably

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Baltimore County Police Department said their officers "responded appropriately and proportionally based on the information provided at the time".

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The tribunal did not find grounds for compensation or remedies for the three claimants, as the force had acted within the law and responded appropriately once the error was discovered.

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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, and other state and local officials have argued that local Portland police have handled protests and crowd control appropriately, and that demonstrators who break the law are regularly arrested.

Staffing shortages at other air traffic control facilities may require alternate plans, such as transitioning workloads from one facility with fewer controllers, to another that is appropriately staffed.

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When he’s stashing the stolen paintings later in a farmhouse’s hayloft and accidentally knocks the ladder out from under him, the moment is amusing and appropriately metaphorical.

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