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necessarily

[nes-uh-sair-uh-lee, -ser-] / ˌnɛs əˈsɛər ə li, -ˈsɛr- /


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That ability to connect with the brain's existing cells is particularly important because simply producing new neurons would not necessarily restore function.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

Many women "don't necessarily know that they're going into the menopause or they're perimenopausal" until they see the banner – and then they sometimes have a "lightbulb moment", she said.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

I don’t see necessarily the demand for that work falling, but what people do within it is going to change.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

“A label making a deal and an individual artist having a choice are not necessarily the same thing,” said Drew Silverstein, the senior advisor for AI at music tech company BandLab Technologies.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2026

In this case, "whole rest" does not necessarily mean "rest for the same length of time as a whole note"; it means "rest for the entire measure."

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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