circumstantially

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It’s ultimately a question of whether that kind of commingled activity makes their account always or never or merely circumstantially attached to their state duties—perhaps on a post-by-post basis, a possibility the justices repeatedly probed.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2023

With Benzema out injured and Griezmann dropping into a midfield role, the Mbappe-Giroud partnership has happened circumstantially.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2022

Talk to me about how circumstantially, you can change that expression.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

Heroic kindness — a value that seemed inseparable from the American ideal just five years ago — has grown circumstantially disposable.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2018

The land distribution system, though there might have been some like element in the original custom of Japan, was yet on the whole another Chinese institution imitated, very circumstantially again.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro