optionally

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That game allowed the player to optionally have their character be transgender, and featured a party member who came out as nonbinary during the course of the adventure.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2025

She added that although stand-alone diversity statements in hiring will “no longer be permitted,” faculty are still allowed to optionally share any “inclusive academic achievements in teaching, research, and service” during the academic review process.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

Cellular immunotherapy involves extracting immune cells from a patient's tumor, optionally engineering them to enhance their natural abilities to combat cancer and reintroducing them to the body after they've been expanded in culture.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2024

Gezellig: Throw around your shoulders in a devil-may-care way and sing hearty songs around a bonfire with your besties, or optionally, on a sleigh.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Can any government believe that the promises held out to me as an inducement to accept the command—may be optionally evaded after the more than completion of my part of the contract?

From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of