historically

adverb

his·tor·i·cal·ly hi-ˈstȯr-i-k(ə-)lē

-ˈstär-

: in accordance with or with respect to history

a historically accurate account

: in the past

historically, stagnant cities seldom have recovered—

Jane Jacobs

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They are expected to be active in the free-agent market this offseason – especially to shore up its historically bad backline – and have the No. 1 pick in the Re-Entry Draft and the No. 2 pick in the college SuperDraft. —

Harold Gutmann, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024 This view is shared by local counties that historically received part of the BLM’s sales revenues to pay for schools and roads and that still rely on the industry for jobs. —

April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024 Those who wistfully compare today’s relatively low fertility rates with the baby booms of the 1950s and 1960s should remember that the rates of this period were in fact historically outliers. —

Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024 Knoxville College is a small HBCU, or historically Black college or university, founded in 1875. —

Phil Helsel, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for historically