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necessarily

[nes-uh-sair-uh-lee, -ser-] / ˌnɛs əˈsɛər ə li, -ˈsɛr- /


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"I don't think she necessarily has to get rid of him," said Marta Lorimer, lecturer in politics at Cardiff University.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

"It's really warmed my heart actually. I didn't necessarily want to be on the news or anything like that but this is a new world to me," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Even if something might be natural, if you aerosolize it and spread it across buildings, it’s not necessarily great,” UCLA’s Spokoyny said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

AI slop has begun appearing on restaurant menus, signs and advertisements, offering food imagery that looks optimized for appetite without necessarily resembling anything a person could cook.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

There was no sign outside the home advertising it as a church, but Ob said, getting out of the car, that it wasn’t the kind of religion people necessarily advertised.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant




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