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se·lec·tive·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. selectivelyadverb

    by selection; in a selective manner

    "we choose our students very selectively"

Wiktionary

  1. selectivelyadverb

    In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.

ChatGPT

  1. selectively

    Selectively is an adverb that describes the act of carefully choosing or making a decision based on specific criteria or preferences. It involves making choices with deliberate attention and discrimination, often due to certain qualities, characteristics or attributes.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SELECTIVELY in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SELECTIVELY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of SELECTIVELY in a Sentence

  1. The Israeli army:

    During the riots, IDF soldiers fired selectively towards two main instigators and hits were confirmed.

  2. Van Den Bosch:

    We add wood to a reactor and then we also need a catalyst, which is a specific material that will do the chemical reactions in the wood so it will selectively depolymerize our lignin material into chemicals; and then last but not least we also need solvent to extract the lignin out of the solid material and there we can use water for or also various kinds of bio-derived alcohols.

  3. Van Beurden:

    We will be doing quite a bit of portfolio high-grading on the back of the BG deal and it doesn't necessarily mean getting out of stuff. It may also mean selectively deepening in areas where we can continue to build on our strengths, you always look at whether a portfolio is deepening positions in areas or whether it is disposing of positions that are due for restructuring or where we don't see the strategic fit any more. That hasn't changed on the back of the BG deal.

  4. An EPA spokesman:

    Congressional Democrats are selectively releasing parts of the transcript through the media producing an incomplete and inaccurate narrative, the EPA has responded to a record number of FOIA requests and will continue to do so.

  5. Adam Schiff:

    This action is long overdue and follows an inexplicable series of events in which the White House played a role in selectively and surreptitiously providing the documents to our Chairman (Nunes), the White House has yet to explain why it attempted to conceal its role in the compilation of these materials. The White House is not a whistleblower and nothing that I was shown justifies such duplicitous conduct.

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