Example Sentences

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By tacit agreement, everything Charles did or didn’t do was definitionally something someone with cooties would or wouldn’t do.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

“I think, definitionally, it’s a dynasty,” said Friedman, the architect of this run with the help of Walter’s deep-pocketed Guggenheim ownership group.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

As a general rule — there are exceptions — all software we buy is a good deal, almost definitionally, because it should be replacing some part of someone’s job that could be replaced.

From The Verge • May 26, 2020

Stephanie Kelton, a senior economic adviser to Bernie Sanders and a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University, is popular in a way that economists, almost definitionally, are not.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2019

Relations of ideas deal with matters that are definitionally or necessarily true, such as 2 + 2 = 4 or all bachelors are unmarried.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton