subordinately
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Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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If you think of religion in this way, and bear in mind that its aims are extremely practical and only subordinately theoretical, it will seem to you worthy of the highest respect.
From Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
Combined with the primary blue, yellow furnishes all the variety of the secondary green, as well as, subordinately, the tertiaries russet and olive.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
Both are probably of the most remote antiquity; both have been largely employed as an architectural ornament, and subordinately as a decoration of vases, costume, furniture and implements.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
Now every act, every scene, should have, subordinately, its exposition, its plot, and its unravelment, just as the total of the piece has, of which they are the parts.
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
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