circumstantially

Example Sentences

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The following summer was, albeit circumstantially, wetter, duller and slightly warmer than average.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025

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

The knowledge of past events so conveyed was frequently most remarkable and was circumstantially correct, even rivalling in this respect the reports which we have of Jung-Stilling and Zschokke.

From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood