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  • adverb In a determinable way.

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Examples

  • As we try to simplify and slow ourselves down, our world just seems to hypersonically spin even more determinably around us.

    Heather McCloskey Beck: Let Peace Begin With Me Heather McCloskey Beck 2011

  • As we try to simplify and slow ourselves down, our world just seems to hypersonically spin even more determinably around us.

    Heather McCloskey Beck: Let Peace Begin With Me Heather McCloskey Beck 2011

  • As we try to simplify and slow ourselves down, our world just seems to hypersonically spin even more determinably around us.

    Heather McCloskey Beck: Let Peace Begin With Me Heather McCloskey Beck 2011

  • As we try to simplify and slow ourselves down, our world just seems to hypersonically spin even more determinably around us.

    Heather McCloskey Beck: Let Peace Begin With Me Heather McCloskey Beck 2011

  • This paves the way for the Iraqi resistance to expand southward gradually, but determinably.

    Security, Reconciliation in Iraq Are Irreconcilable 2009

  • The final wave of patrons came in rows of beaming crystal blue lamps down the winding PCH, maneuvering to and fro like the eyes of things creeping in the night determinably en route to their glowing refuge.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 1 2009

  • In France they hate Dutch tourists because they like to drive down in their dinky motor homes bringing their entire month´s worth of really bad Dutch food rations and determinably avoiding spending any money whatsoever in France.

    Accident Lakeside 2007

  • At her side Dudley reviewed what he had said, determinably ignoring an uncomfortable feeling of disloyalty to Amy whose love, he knew, had been more faithful, and continued more strongly than he chose to portray.

    The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996

  • At her side Dudley reviewed what he had said, determinably ignoring an uncomfortable feeling of disloyalty to Amy whose love, he knew, had been more faithful, and continued more strongly than he chose to portray.

    The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996

  • According to Healy, the vast majority of all instances of pathological stealing are those in which individuals, not determinably insane, give way to an abnormally conditioned impulse to steal.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

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