Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a representative manner; as or through a representative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a representative manner; vicariously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
representative manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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a second, more elaborated view of judgment which does not restrict it to moments of crisis, but which identifies it with the capacity to think representatively, that is, from the standpoint of everyone else.
Hannah Arendt d'Entreves, Maurizio Passerin 2006
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To make sense of this the reader must understand it as symbol for the absent subject, the vicious illogic of a no-win situation so incredibly, inedibly fucked-up as to be representatively inarticulable.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (1) Hal Duncan 2008
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To make sense of this the reader must understand it as symbol for the absent subject, the vicious illogic of a no-win situation so incredibly, inedibly fucked-up as to be representatively inarticulable.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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It was always known that MI & FL were going to be seated representatively - that 50/50 ish was going nowhere.
Wolfson: Even If Florida And Michigan Aren't Seated, An Obama Victory Would Be Legit 2009
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Senator Clinton never agreed that those states would not be represented fairly and representatively.
Hillary: I Might Take Fight Over Florida And Michigan To Convention! 2009
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Then they need to give up on destroying Israel, eliminate Hamas and probably Fatah, then representatively create Western style rule-of-law.
You can't ask questions in here! This is the press room! Ann Althouse 2009
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You're relying on the DT sampling representatively.
MPs Expenses and safe seats correlation - update Mark Reckons 2009
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He said it was nonsense to speak of a leader without followers so he accepted the award representatively of all South Africans.
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I was looking at Planes of Power and the article you listed here on user-generated content for something I am writing now on CoH/V social play and how that play is by-and-large and, I think, representatively repressive.
Virtual Trademarks 2008
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The world of ACACIA is overtly and representatively multi-ethnic, like our world, and the topics it deals with have very little to do with our old racial hangups.
Neth Space Neth 2007
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