expressly
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The opposition statement was more detailed and expressly referred to the support the United States has lent since the quakes, which it said showed that "Venezuela is not alone".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The first is that the wedding itself, scattered with Easter eggs like a mirror ball and a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, was engineered expressly to troll the media.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Presidential powers were expressly limited by the Constitution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
She expressly rejects the notion of Fourth Amendment protections somehow “kicking in” only after surveillance becomes sufficiently extensive or “goes too far.”
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing expressly
The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Merchant of Venice
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