necessarily

adv

necessarily

adv

UK /ˈnɛs.ə.sə.ɹɪ.li/ · US /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/

Etymology From necessary + -ly.

1

Inevitably; of necessity.

It is not necessarily true that children get their morals from their parents.
But clever cities will not necessarily be better ones.2013 September 7, “The multiplexed metropolis”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:

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Oregon’s uptick in marijuana sales along the Idaho border doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s all Idahoans who are lighting up, Lehner said.2020 January 20, Harmeet Kaur, “Marijuana sales on the Oregon-Idaho border are 420% higher than average, an analysis finds. Yes, you read that right”, in CNN:

Related terms: necessary, not necessarily, unnecessarily

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