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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a concrete form or manner; not abstractly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a concrete manner.

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  • adverb In a concrete manner, physically, definitely

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  • adverb in concrete terms

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Examples

  • Experts on genocide recently declared that Robert Mugabe was guilty of genocide 'by attrition', a label concretely backed up by the genocidal numbers of people dead and dying in Zimbabwe.

    SWRadioAfrica Podcast 2009

  • If we can't take pleasure and satisfaction in concretely helping middle-class families and working-class families save money, get a college education, get health care -- if that's not what we're about, then we shouldn't be in the business of politics.

    Obama to Dems: 'Guys, wake up here.' Jonathan Capehart 2010

  • The beauty he has perceived must in accordance with our human needs find expression concretely, because it is only as he manifests himself in forms which we can understand that we are able to recognize him.

    The Enjoyment of Art Carleton Eldredge Noyes 1911

  • And it is this, concretely, which is the gift which the Risen Christ shares in Pentecost with the Church.

    Inhabitatio Dei 2009

  • All are described as concretely as possible and avoiding unnecessary mathematics and formalism.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • One of the most pitiful things in the relations of human beings to each other -- the action and reaction of events that is called concretely "human life" -- is that every now and then some of them should be called upon to lay down their lives from no sense of imperative, calculated duty such as inspires the soldier or the sailor, but suddenly, without any previous knowledge or warning of danger, without any opportunity of escape, and without any desire to risk such conditions of danger of their own free will.

    The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons Lawrence Beesley 1922

  • 3. Items on next-action lists should be described as concretely as possible.

    Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency 2007

  • Moreover, what does it mean to say that the charges against Lewis were only "concretely" false?

    Cuba and Oscar Lewis: An Exchange Gouldner, Alvin W. 1977

  • "It is always thus that common sense proceeds, its principal merit being to know how to unite present perceptions with those previously cognized, then to understand how to coordinate them so as to be able to group them concretely, that is to say, to synthesize them.

    Common Sense, How to Exercise It Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi

  • This means seeking to understand abstract beliefs about spirituality, as well as concretely changing some little things about my life.

    Taking off our shoes: On being Romero’s Church in Cambodia « Planning the Day 2009

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