as in solely
for nothing other than
his best paintings are the ones that he did exclusively for the sheer pleasure they gave him
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Recent Examples of exclusively
Last September, Deadline exclusively announced that Elordi and Robbie were tapped to star in Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, from MRC and LuckyChap.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 19 Apr. 2025
In addition to being able to survive on land, northern snakeheads can live in muddy, shallow waters that don’t have a lot of oxygen—ecosystems that are typically off-limits to other fish that exclusively absorb oxygen through their gills.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
After the upcoming season premiere, the series will shift exclusively to streaming on Peacock, leaving behind its longtime Thursday night home.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Although the first orbiting data centers will exclusively crunch data collected in space, some technologists think that power-hungry computing infrastructure would in the future do better in space, where solar power is constant and cooling is easy.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 19 Apr. 2025
In addition to being able to survive on land, northern snakeheads can live in muddy, shallow waters that don’t have a lot of oxygen—ecosystems that are typically off-limits to other fish that exclusively absorb oxygen through their gills.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
After the upcoming season premiere, the series will shift exclusively to streaming on Peacock, leaving behind its longtime Thursday night home.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Although the first orbiting data centers will exclusively crunch data collected in space, some technologists think that power-hungry computing infrastructure would in the future do better in space, where solar power is constant and cooling is easy.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exclusively
Adverb
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Ignoring these threats and relying solely on existing norms for protection is not an effective countermeasure.—
Andrew Hanna,
Time,
13 Apr. 2025
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Blanketing our communities with descriptions that focus solely on crime is dishonest and hinders our efforts to achieve peace, especially those of us who have survived the unthinkable loss of a loved one to murder.—
Clementina Chery,
Boston Herald,
13 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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The use of the legislative fund needs approval only from legislative leaders.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
15 Apr. 2025
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This deeper level of engagement not only informs new office designs but can increases employees’ sense of ownership of it.—
Ryan Anderson,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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That looks pretty optically strong to me – which, of course, is purely subjective – but the way to use this kind of chart is to see if the future actually sticks reasonably close to the trajectory.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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In many cases, nutrition practitioners are brought in purely to provide body composition assessments.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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By episode 2, the former Fireflies make it to an area just outside Jackson and see how heavily fortified the city is.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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But the Heat then scored just 21 points while shooting 1 of 6 (16.7 percent) on threes in the fourth quarter.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2025
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In other words, if the economy is in a recession or sliding into one, the Fed presumably will lower rates but not if inflation has spiked and the economy is simply losing steam.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Before a critical point in development, the animals failed to close the wound made by the cut, causing the two embryo halves to simply spew cells out into the environment.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Exclusively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclusively. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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