as in separately
for each person or thing
The two problems should be addressed discretely, as one is unrelated to the other.
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Instead, tickets will be sold separately with proceeds benefiting the Aztecs’ Student-Athlete Recruitment and Retention Fund for men’s basketball.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
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Meanwhile, a group of states led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton separately sued Google for anticompetitive and deceptive practices in its ad business.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
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To date, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico and Virginia have individually taken action to expand COVID vaccine access by allowing pharmacists to administer the vaccine under certain circumstances.—
Jaimie Seaton,
Scientific American,
17 Sep. 2025
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The clinic considers hair transplantation not only as a technical procedure but as an aesthetic art and evaluates each patient individually.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Discretely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discretely. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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