as in therefore
for this or that reason the application deadline was yesterday; accordingly, only applications mailed before midnight can be considered

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Recent Examples of accordingly New Yorkers can just look at what Katie Holmes has been wearing and dress accordingly. Clint Davis, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024 The new bill also includes a surveillance provision in which footage from various government ministries including the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Defense, as well as traffic monitoring cameras, will be used to identify individuals who broke the law and punish them accordingly. Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 Russia’s approach appeared to be sustainable—even in 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and adjusted its military presence in Syria accordingly. Nicole Grajewski, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2024 Then at the end the experimenters would randomly pick one of the choices the participant had made and pay him or her accordingly. Christian B. Miller, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for accordingly 
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Adverb
  • Growing up in an area with a lot of money and therefore rich stay-at-home partners who fill their voids shopping.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • However, omega-3 mediators only come into play when the body is fighting inflammation and are therefore often difficult to detect during the initiation of inflammation, said study coauthor Dr. Ganesh Halade, an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of South Florida.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper did so in 2008 when opposition parties sought to form a coalition government.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This thought experiment can't be replicated in the real world, since plastic pollution is so ubiquitous.
    Will Stone, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
Adverb
  • Philadelphia has had a rough go of it thus far this season.
    Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Saudi Arabia itself is a country of great geographical, and thus culinary, diversity.
    AJ Willingham, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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  • As outlined in Justice Alito's dissenting opinion, the Seventh Circuit court ruled that the groups could not bring a case to court to challenge the policy unless one of their children were trans and the parent had, consequently, been directly affected by the policy.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In general, cases of missing Black people get less media attention and, consequently, less pressure is put on law enforcement to solve them.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024

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“Accordingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accordingly. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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