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  • adverb In a manner that is germane, relevantly.

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Examples

  • You could argue that by offloading data onto silicon, we free our own gray matter for more germanely "human" tasks like brainstorming and daydreaming.

    Your Outboard Brain Knows All 2007

  • Not simply in a by analogy, ‘Consider the lilies’, sense 2, but in the sense that fundamental mechanisms about what we see can ONLY come from (messy, imperfect) animals and not from the (clean, perfect) mathematical focus of earlier workers (Francis mentions, germanely, Bablyonian astronomy/astrology – these deal with relatively ‘pure’ concepts and predictable celestial motions, not the uncertainty with which biology has traffic).

    "Let them learn Latin" 2006

  • Reduced to simple terms, the object of a campaign is to inform the voters on every subject that legitimately and germanely joins to the issues and the candidates.

    The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox Charles E. Morris

  • You are NOW to know, that upon this very morning, an embassy from the willow-wearers all -- or, to speak indeed more germanely to the matter, of the BASKET-BEARERS [22], waited upon their beautiful enemy with an ultimatum and manifesto in one, importing first a requisition to surrender; then, in case of refusal to capitulate, the announcement that HYMEN having found in

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

  • Virginia Company show germanely that, on November 17, 1619, "the treasurer, council, and company" of this Virginia Company addressed

    The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876

  • She phones her friend Myron David Wilson Barnes, the local fire chief on Long Beach Island, ostensibly to alert him to this potential suicide but, more germanely, so that Mr. Braff can usher another character onstage.

    NYT > Home Page By CHARLES ISHERWOOD 2011

  • JPO is absolutely correct to state that we are not only "FULL UP" but moreover, "FED UP" - however, it is with corrupt and economical with the truth politicians that this statement applies most germanely.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • JPO is absolutely correct to state that we are not only "FULL UP" but moreover, "FED UP" - however, it is with corrupt and economical with the truth politicians that this statement applies most germanely.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

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