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properly

[prop-er-lee] / ˈprɒp ər li /


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But by avoiding a sporting sanction such as a points deduction, has the league failed to properly punish one of English football's most serious cheating scandals?

From BBC

Many in the Bloomberg camp claimed the original posters were paid by Perplexity to orchestrate the campaign and weren’t properly disclosing it.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I want to thank you properly tomorrow,” I started.

From Literature

"In principle, this triangular lattice network of properly chosen lanthanide moments can cause a special kind of intrinsically quantum disordered state to arise," Wilson said.

From Science Daily

“The challenge we’re facing right now is, that cycle has been really altered, so we don’t really have a system that can be managed properly under the current conditions we are experiencing,” Ajami said.

From Los Angeles Times