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- adverb In a
meaningful manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a meaningful manner; so as to be meaningful
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Examples
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If we are going to use the word meaningfully we must restrict it to a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to “rejoice together, mourn together,” and to “delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own.”
THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987
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If we are going to use the word meaningfully we must restrict it to a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to “rejoice together, mourn together,” and to “delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own.”
THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987
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The ratings agency said it expects profitability at Cummins to remain "meaningfully positive" during future market downturns.
Cummins Profit Rises Sharply John Kell 2010
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Bautista repeated the word meaningfully, letting it hang in the air as he walked back to his long table.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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The stranger spun his coin meaningfully, but Otik only smiled.
The Magic of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1987
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The stranger spun his coin meaningfully, but Otik only smiled.
The Magic of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1987
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At a fundamental philosophical level, McCain’s regulatory earmark does not differ meaningfully from the earmarking he has spent a career railing against.
McCain's Purple Cow 2008
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At a fundamental philosophical level, McCain’s regulatory earmark does not differ meaningfully from the earmarking he has spent a career railing against.
McCain's Purple Cow 2008
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" Bautista repeated the word meaningfully, letting it hang in the air as he walked back to his long table.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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Imagine if more and more people were capable of either making or identifying with a list of 50 rabbis, other Jewish teachers, or any spiritual teachers who they would describe as meaningfully influential in either their own lives or in the world as a whole.
Louises commented on the word meaningfully
Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
February 29, 2012