How to Use necessarily in a Sentence
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Still, this isn’t necessarily the case across the board.
—Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 24 June 2022
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Not all the flashy stuff necessarily, but kind of the inner him that we were all so touched by.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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The best order to watch all the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies isn’t necessarily by their release dates.
—Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2022
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This of course is not a sound way to make soup, but sometimes the chef doesn’t have the time or resources to do necessarily things in the best of ways.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
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But this wasn’t the necessarily the time for this kind of music.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
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Most of the pledges are as made; some have necessarily changed as the circumstances have changed.
—Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 11 June 2023
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The Lakers need to find the best fits — not necessarily the most talent — to play with James, Davis and Westbrook.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
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So a bunch of stuff is, is, is moving over, but that does not necessarily mean.
—Leila Atassi, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2022
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But that doesn’t necessarily mean group settings are the way to go.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
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But one of them necessarily leads to a bit more job-hopping.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
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Dark red in the map doesn't necessarily mean a home is overtaxed.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2022
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The presence of co-stars was a balm, but Ripley, necessarily, is alone a great deal.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 22 May 2024
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Those scenes play very sweet and lighthearted to contrast the rest of the arc, when things don't necessarily go that way.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2022
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Image At the same time, even that is no longer necessarily enough.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
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But now the question is going to be, does that necessarily meet the moment?
—CBS News, 11 June 2023
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But that does not mean a strike will necessarily happen, as was the case with Teamsters at UPS last year.
—Natasha Chen, CNN, 19 July 2024
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And yet, Chang doesn’t believe brett to necessarily be a flaw.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2024
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Not to the Chiefs fans necessarily, not scary but awful.
—Sidney Steele, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
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The upshot is that Young doesn’t necessarily have to score.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
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The views expressed here are theirs and do not necessarily reflect those of their school.
—Kellen Mermin-Bunnell and Ariana M. Traub, STAT, 13 July 2022
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That doesn't mean the claimant is necessarily the winner just yet.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
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The problem for the Heat at power forward is that there isn’t necessarily a Plan B.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
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But that doesn’t mean a buyback would necessarily be the best use of cash from a longer-term perspective.
—CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
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And not out of malice necessarily, some people are just so in their heads about their own stuff.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
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But just because it can be banned does not mean it necessarily will be banned.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
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But that’s not to say Mars necessarily hosted vast oceans and rivers—or at least not during that era.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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And learning how to be the one to initiate those things without sort of the help of her parents, necessarily.
—Ana Osorno, Town & Country, 14 July 2023
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Keep in mind that cheaper forms of jade look dull and waxy are not necessarily more sturdy, Chiu says.
—Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2022
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Not about the drama-free part, necessarily, but about the spotlight not being the thing that broke Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez up.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2025
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This long standing tension has fueled a widespread perception that to be pro-worker is necessarily to be anti-business, and to be pro-business is to be anti-worker.
—Maria Flynn, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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