Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a restrictive manner; with limitation.
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- adverb In a
restrictive manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a restrictive manner
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Examples
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SF can challenge its readers and viewers intelligently through more ways than a strictly (and restrictively) "hard" perspective.
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The challenge at hand implies immense consequences should we fail, and the time frame feels restrictively short.
Kate Otto: Apps for Development, not Destruction (VIDEO) Kate Otto 2010
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In this area, sometimes advocacy is not served by having a client get the "best financial deal possible," but by addressing and meeting real concerns and client goals as least restrictively as possible.
Laurie Israel: The Problem With Prenups: Part II Laurie Israel 2011
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Your thinking in re: a profound and three-dimensional problem such as immigration reform would appear to be restrictively linear, bringing you back around, as it does, to the very same starting point – again and again – which efforts have not wrought even the slightest intellectual departure from the well-worn contours of that tired anti-immigrant propaganda template.
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The challenge at hand implies immense consequences should we fail, and the time frame feels restrictively short.
Kate Otto: Apps for Development, not Destruction (VIDEO) Kate Otto 2010
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The challenge at hand implies immense consequences should we fail, and the time frame feels restrictively short.
Kate Otto: Apps for Development, not Destruction (VIDEO) Kate Otto 2010
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In this area, sometimes advocacy is not served by having a client get the "best financial deal possible," but by addressing and meeting real concerns and client goals as least restrictively as possible.
Laurie Israel: The Problem With Prenups: Part II Laurie Israel 2011
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The challenge at hand implies immense consequences should we fail, and the time frame feels restrictively short.
Kate Otto: Apps for Development, not Destruction (VIDEO) Kate Otto 2010
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It may well be that we have treated Norwegian candidates especially restrictively in recent decades.
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Happy to be walking usually leading the way rather than being held more restrictively by the hand.
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